Advertising

Written in an accessible and interesting style this book presents a clear and easy guide to the main approaches to advertising, and explores how advertising can be studied as a cultural industry.

Introduction 1. Advertising and Common Sense 2. Advertising Agencies: Mediation and the Creative Process 3. Advertising: Marketing, Media and Communication 4. Analysing and historicising advertising 5. Advertising and Culture 6. Advertising: Signs and Textualities 7. Advertising: New Forms and Intimacies 8. Advertising: Audiences and Psychologies Bibliography