Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel Export

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TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:421849 L3 - citeulike-article-id:421849 N2 - { <P><BLOCK><P>"When was the last time you felt this comfortable in a relationship?"<P> <P>-- An ad for sneakers<P>"You can love it without getting your heart broken." <P>-- An ad for a car<P> "Until I find a real man, I'll settle for a real smoke." <P>-- A woman in a cigarette ad<P></BLOCK><P>Many advertisements these days make us feel as if we have an intimate, even passionate relationship with a product. But as Jean Kilbourne points out in this fascinating and shocking expos&#233;, the dreamlike promise of advertising always leaves us hungry for more. We can never be satisfied, because the products we love cannot love us back.<P>Drawing upon her knowledge of psychology, media, and women's issues, Kilbourne offers nothing less than a new understanding of a ubiquitous phenomenon in our culture. The average American is exposed to over 3,000 advertisements a day and watches three years' worth of television ads over the course of a lifetime. Kilbourne paints a gripping portrait of how this barrage of advertising drastically affects young people, especially girls, by offering false promises of rebellion, connection, and control. She also offers a surprising analysis of the way advertising creates and then feeds an addictive mentality that often continues throughout adulthood. <P> } SN - 0684866005 TI - Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel PB - {Free Press} KW - advertising KW - cultural_studies KW - education KW - media_literacy KW - popular_culture AU - Kilbourne, Jean PY - 2000/11/02/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&amp;path=ASIN/0684866005 ER -