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The Tangled Web They Weave - Truth, Falsity and Advertisers (Hardcover): Ivan L. Preston The Tangled Web They Weave - Truth, Falsity and Advertisers (Hardcover)
Ivan L. Preston
R590 Discovery Miles 5 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ronny Someck is an enormously popular poet and radio host in Israel. Born in Iraq, he spent his childhood in a transit camp for new immigrants. This is his first full-length book to appear in English; his Sephardi voice is rich with slang, hot music, street gangsters and army commandos, and the odors of falafel and schwarma. In what other poet could we find Tarzan, Marilyn Monroe, and cowboys battling with Rabbi Yehuda Halevi for the hearts and souls of Israelis?

Pictorial Metaphor in Advertising (Paperback): Charles Forceville Pictorial Metaphor in Advertising (Paperback)
Charles Forceville
R1,606 Discovery Miles 16 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


Over the past few decades, research on metaphor has focused almost exclusively on its verbal and cognitive dimensions. In Pictorial Metaphor in Advertising, Charles Forceville argues that metaphor can also occur in pictures and draws on relevant studies from various disciplines to propose a model for the identification, classification, and analysis of 'pictorial metaphors'. By using insights taken from a range of linguistic, artistic and cognitive perspectives for example, interaction and relevance theory, Forceville shows not only how metaphor can occur in pictures, but also provides a framework within which these pictorial metaphors can be analyzed.
The theoretical insights are applied to thirty advertisements and billboards of British, French, German and Dutch origin. Apart from substantiating the claim that it makes sense to talk about `pictorial metaphors', the detailed analyses of the advertisements suggest how metaphor theory can be employed as a tool in media studies. Context in its various manifestations plays a key role in the analyses. Furthermore, the results of a small-scale experiment shed light on where general agreement about the meaning of a pictorial metaphor can shade over into other more idiosyncratic but equally valid interpretations. The final chapter sketches the ways in which the insights gained can be used for further research.

Hadrian - The Restless Emperor (Hardcover, Reissue): Anthony R. Birley Hadrian - The Restless Emperor (Hardcover, Reissue)
Anthony R. Birley
R4,516 Discovery Miles 45 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


Hadrian's reign (AD 117-138) was a watershed in the history of the Roman Empire. Hadrian abandoned his predecessor Trajan's eastern conquests - Mesopotamia and Armenia - trimmed down the lands beyond the lower Danube, and constructed new demarcation lines in Germany, North Africa, and most famously Hadrian's Wall in Britain, to delimit the empire.
The emperor Hadrian, a strange and baffling figure to his contemporaries, had a many-sided personality. Insatiably ambitious, and a passionate Philhellene, he promoted the 'Greek Renaissance' extravagantly. But his attempt to Hellenize the Jews, including the outlawing of circumcision, had disastrous consequences, and his 'Greek' love of the beautiful Bithynian boy Antinous ended in tragedy.
No comprehensive account of Hadrian's life and reign has been attempted for over seventy years. In Hadrian: The Restless Emperor, Anthony Birley brings together the new evidence from inscriptions and papyri, and up-to-date and in-depth examination of the work of other scholars on aspects of Hadrian's reign and policies such as the Jewish war, the coinage, Hadrian's building programme in Rome, Athens and Tivoli, and his relationship with his favourite, Antinous, to provide a thorough and fascinating account of the private and public life of a man who, though hated when he died, left an indelible mark on the Roman Empire.

Relationship Marketing in Professional Services - A Study of Agency-Client Dynamics in the Advertising Sector (Hardcover): Aino... Relationship Marketing in Professional Services - A Study of Agency-Client Dynamics in the Advertising Sector (Hardcover)
Aino Halinen
R5,783 Discovery Miles 57 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


Contents:
1. Introduction 2. The Research Setting 3. An Interaction Framework for the Development of Advertising Agency-Client Relationships 4. Empirical Research Design 5. Development of the Advertising Agency-Client Relationship Studied 6. A Modified Process Model of Advertising Agency-Client Relationships 7. Assessment of the Study 8. Summary

Electronic Word of Mouth as a Promotional Technique - New Insights from Social Media (Hardcover): Shu-Chuan Chu, Juran Kim,... Electronic Word of Mouth as a Promotional Technique - New Insights from Social Media (Hardcover)
Shu-Chuan Chu, Juran Kim, Charles R Taylor
R4,490 Discovery Miles 44 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Recent years have seen digital advertising grow to the point where it will soon overtake television as the no. 1 advertising medium. In the online environment, consumers interact and share their thoughts on brands and their experiences using them. These electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) communications have become a very important to the success of products. In today's cluttered environment, it is especially important to study how the practice of eWOM advertising operates, and how marketers can influence eWOM in social media and other online sites. This volume starts with a chapter on the current state of knowledge on eWOM and then turns its attention to current research articles on a variety of eWOM formats. These include the posting of selfies on social media, the influence of review types on consumer perception and purchase intention, the effects of preannouncement messages, and how user-generated content can be used to induce effectiveness of eWOM on social media. The relationship of eWOM to brand building is emphasized in several of the chapters. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Advertising.

Social Communication in Advertising - Consumption in the Mediated Marketplace (Hardcover, 4th edition): William Leiss, Stephen... Social Communication in Advertising - Consumption in the Mediated Marketplace (Hardcover, 4th edition)
William Leiss, Stephen Kline, Sut Jhally, Kyle Asquith, Jackie Botterill
R4,533 Discovery Miles 45 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Newly updated for the digital era, this classic textbook provides a comprehensive historical study of advertising and its function within contemporary society by tracing advertising's influence throughout different media and cultural periods, from early magazines through to social media. With several new chapters on the rise of the Internet, mobile, and social media, this fourth edition offers new insights into the role of Google, Facebook, Snapchat, and YouTube as both media and advertising companies, as well as examining the role of brand culture in the 21st century.

Attention, Attitude, and Affect in Response to Advertising (Hardcover): Eddie M. Clark, Timothy C Brock, David W. Stewart Attention, Attitude, and Affect in Response to Advertising (Hardcover)
Eddie M. Clark, Timothy C Brock, David W. Stewart
R4,513 Discovery Miles 45 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Linked from the days of their origins, psychology and advertising developed as independent disciplines at almost the same time in the late nineteenth century. Providing an important arena in which psychologists have tested methods and theories, advertising has been a stimulus for research and development in such diverse specialties as learning and behavioral decision theory, psychometrics, perception, and social and mathematical psychology. Psychology, in turn, has contributed a wide assortment of tools, theories, and techniques to the practice of advertising. These contributions have found their place in virtually all areas of advertising practice -- stimulating creativity, evaluating the creative product, and informing the scheduling of media.
Purposely eclectic, this volume presents new issues in consumer psychology and advertising such as the relationship between gender differences, cortical organization and advertising; new approaches to old issues such as attention as an epiphenomenon, and meta-analysis of comparative advertising research; and new applications of consumer psychology to other fields such as examining health behavior as consumer behavior, affect and political advertising, and the relationship between advertising and eating disorders.
This volume is the result of the Sixth Annual Advertising and Consumer Behavior Conference, which was designed to bring together researchers and practitioners from both psychology and advertising. Chapter contributions are made by professionals in advertising and marketing, professors in psychology and marketing departments, and psychologists who consult for advertising and marketing organizations. Thus, the chapters represent a microcosm of the type of interaction that has characterized the interface of psychology and advertising for more than a hundred years.

Advertising International - The Privatisation of Public Space (Paperback, Revised): Armand Mattelart Advertising International - The Privatisation of Public Space (Paperback, Revised)
Armand Mattelart
R902 Discovery Miles 9 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


A survey of the changes in the advertising industry in the last twenty years including coverage of the emergence of international conglomerates and the diversification of the agencies into public relations and media buying.

The Codes of Advertising - Fetishism and the Political Economy of Meaning in the Consumer Society (Paperback, Revised): Sut... The Codes of Advertising - Fetishism and the Political Economy of Meaning in the Consumer Society (Paperback, Revised)
Sut Jhally
R1,234 Discovery Miles 12 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


Analyses the role played by advertising in the cultural economy of modern society, from both cultural and economic perspectives.

Deceptive Advertising - Behavioral Study of A Legal Concept (Hardcover, New): Jef Richards Deceptive Advertising - Behavioral Study of A Legal Concept (Hardcover, New)
Jef Richards
R4,502 Discovery Miles 45 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the first book designed to assist behavioral scientists in the preparation of scholarly or applied research regarding deceptive advertising which will ultimately affect public policy in this area. Because there was an inadequate foundation upon which to build a program of research for this topic, a three-part solution has been devised:
1) a review of how deception is viewed and regulated
2) a theory of how consumers process deceptive information
3) a sensitive and consistent means of measuring deceptiveness.
This text provides detailed discussions regarding the intersection of law and behavioral science and its application to deceptive advertising. In so doing, it offers a solid foundation upon which to base expanded behavioral research into how consumers are deceived by advertising claims, and what cognitive processes are involved in that deception.

The Consumerist Manifesto - Advertising in Postmodern Times (Hardcover): Martin P. Davidson The Consumerist Manifesto - Advertising in Postmodern Times (Hardcover)
Martin P. Davidson
R5,767 Discovery Miles 57 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Advertising is no longer on the defensive. It has survived the snobbery of the 50s, the conspiracy theories of the 60s and the semiology of the 70s to be embraced and apotheosised by the 80s. The Consumerist Manifesto is the first book to examine the advertising process from within the agency itself, and from the wider perspective of advertising's dual relationship as both consumer and object, with contemporary cultural theory. Martin Davidson follows the creation of successful campaigns and explores how advertising has succeeded in setting the tone for even larger aspects of our material and personal lives. With the impact of postmodernism and popular culture, and the subsequent collapse of the old anti-advertising critique, the books reveals how advertising came to be embraced as the idiom of the enterprise culture, and how it became central to the decades assault on traditional notions of political and cultural value. Martin Davidson explores the wider implications of advertising's dominance for cultural theory, art, anthropology and language. Finally, Martin Davidson asks how this new critique will have to develop if the industry's new credibility is to be maintained.

Promotional Screen Industries (Paperback): Paul Grainge, Catherine Johnson Promotional Screen Industries (Paperback)
Paul Grainge, Catherine Johnson
R1,264 Discovery Miles 12 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From the trailers and promos that surround film and television to the ads and brand videos that are sought out and shared, promotional media have become a central part of contemporary screen life. Promotional Screen Industries is the first book to explore the sector responsible for this thriving area of media production. In a wide-ranging analysis, Paul Grainge and Catherine Johnson explore the intermediaries - advertising agencies, television promotion specialists, movie trailer houses, digital design companies - that compete and collaborate in the fluid, fast-moving world of promotional screen work. Through interview-based fieldwork with companies and practitioners based in the UK, US and China, Promotional Screen Industries encourages us to see promotion as a professional and creative discipline with its own opportunities and challenges. Outlining how shifts in the digital media environment have unsettled the boundaries of 'promotion' and 'content', the authors provide new insight into the sector, work, strategies and imaginaries of contemporary screen promotion. With case studies on mobile communication, television, film and live events, this timely book offers a compelling examination of the industrial configurations and media forms, such as ads, apps, promos, trailers, digital shorts, branded entertainment and experiential media, that define promotional screen culture at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Promotional Culture and Convergence - Markets, Methods, Media (Hardcover, New): Helen Powell Promotional Culture and Convergence - Markets, Methods, Media (Hardcover, New)
Helen Powell
R4,501 Discovery Miles 45 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The rapid growth of promotional material through the internet, social media, and entertainment culture has created consumers who are seeking out their own information to guide their purchasing decisions.

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Promotional Culture and Convergence" analyses the environments necessary for creating a culture of collaboration with consumers, and critically engages with key areas of contemporary promotional development, including:

  • promotional culture s primary industries, including advertising, marketing, PR and branding, and how are they informed by changes in consumer behaviour and market conditions
  • how industries are adapting in the digital age to attract both audiences and advertising revenue
  • the evolving dialogues between new consumers and producers and promotional industries.

Ten contributions from leading theorists on contemporary promotional culture presents an indispensable guide to this creative and dynamic field and include detailed historical analysis, in-depth case studies and global examples of promotion through TV, magazines, newspapers and cinema.

Advertising Management in a Digital Environment - Text and Cases (Paperback, 1st Edition): Larry D. Kelley, Kim Bartel Sheehan Advertising Management in a Digital Environment - Text and Cases (Paperback, 1st Edition)
Larry D. Kelley, Kim Bartel Sheehan
R1,320 R1,239 Discovery Miles 12 390 Save R81 (6%) Ships with 15 working days

Advertising Management in a Digital Environment: Text and Cases blends the latest methods for digital communication and an understanding of the global landscape with the best practices of the functional areas of management.

Divided into three core sections, the book provides a truly holistic approach to Advertising Management. The first part considers the fundamentals of advertising management, including leadership, ethics and corporate social responsibility, and finance and budgeting. The second part considers human capital management and managing across cultures, whilst the third part discusses strategic planning, decision making and brand strategy. To demonstrate how theory translates to practice in advertising, each chapter is illustrated with real-life case studies from a broad range of sectors, and practical exercises allow case analysis and further learning.

This new textbook offers an integrated and global approach to Advertising Management and should be core or recommended reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Media Management, Advertising, Marketing Management and Strategy, Communications and Public Relations. The applied approach provided by case study analysis makes it equally suitable for those in executive education and studying for professional qualifications.

Table of Contents

1. The New World of Advertising Management: Digital and Global

Case 1.1: Boswell Agency

2. Culture, Administration and Leadership in a Global Market

Case 2.1: Prime Media

3. Advertising Ethnics and Social Responsibility Across Cultures

Case 3.1: KMF Agency

4. Understanding the role of Finance and Budgeting

Case 4.1: The Southern Rice Company

Case 4.2: Vineyard Agency

5. Managing Means Measuring

Case 5.1: Randall White Dog Food

Case 5.2: Tinsdale Agency and Design

6. An Overview of Personnel Management

Case 6.1: IPortal Media Company

7. Adjusting to Being a New Manager

Case 7.1: Metropolitan Media Company

Case 7.2: Gotham Media

8. Managing Creative People

Case 8.1: JPT Agency

9. Managing across Cultures

Case 9.1: The Davis Group

10. Handling Tricky Situations

Case 10.1: The Leaky Oil Company

11. Management and Creative Strategy

Case 11.1: Go Organic Company

12. Making Strategic Decisions in Advertising Management within a Brand perspective

Case 12.1: Boston Insurance Company

13. Aligning Strategy to Cultural Differences in Advertising Management

Case 13.1: Barrands Agency

14. Managing the brand’s digital assets

Case 14.1: AdLeaders

15. Advertising Management when Things go Wrong

Case 15.1: Phoenix Power Company

The Wizard Of Ads (Paperback): Roy H. Williams The Wizard Of Ads (Paperback)
Roy H. Williams
R371 Discovery Miles 3 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Forget Madison Avenue! Learn the unvarnished truth about what works, what doesn't and why from the most fascinating storyteller since Paul Harvey. With the knowledge of a seasoned business consultant and the warmth and wit of a natural storyteller, the Wizard will help you to: multiply the effectiveness of your advertising understand the tug-of-war between intellect and emotion create totally new concepts from combinations of old ones focus your advertising, your business, and your life.

Design and Emotion (Hardcover): Deana McDonagh, Paul Hekkert, Jeroen van Erp, Diane Gyi Design and Emotion (Hardcover)
Deana McDonagh, Paul Hekkert, Jeroen van Erp, Diane Gyi
R5,504 Discovery Miles 55 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

There is considerable interest in and growing recognition of the emotional domain in product development. The relationship between the user and the product is paramount in industry, which has led to major research investments in this area.
Traditional ergonomic approaches to design have concentrated on the user's physical and cognitive abilities. However, new approaches also take into consideration the user's emotional relationship with their belongings. Design and Emotion is an edited collection of papers given at the 3rd Design and Emotion Conference 2002. These contributions outline the latest developments, findings, and techniques in industrial applications and in research, bringing you up-to-date with the current thinking in this field.
As a forum for discussing the latest ideas in emotion-driven design, this book will prove to be essential reading for all human factors specialists involved in design.

Sex in Advertising - Perspectives on the Erotic Appeal (Paperback): Tom Reichert, Jacqueline Lambiase Sex in Advertising - Perspectives on the Erotic Appeal (Paperback)
Tom Reichert, Jacqueline Lambiase
R1,619 Discovery Miles 16 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Sex in Advertising: Perspectives on the Erotic Appeal" is the first book to thoroughly tackle important issues about sex in advertising. What is it? Does it work? How does it affect individuals and society? Well-respected scholars and popular writers answer these questions as they address the following issues associated with sex in today's advertising environment: gender differences and representation, unintended social effects, subliminal embeds, appeals to the homosexual community, and new media. The book contains a blend of perspectives, including original experimental studies, interpretive and historical analyses, and cultural critiques.
The definitive source on sex in advertising, this book:
*is centralized around a singular theme: Understanding how sex in advertising appeals work and why they are so prevalent;
*includes multiple perspectives to capture the richness of sexual appeals;
*brings together viewpoints from both well-known scholars and writers;
*provides a wealth of ideas and research questions for those interested in the topic; and
*contains discussions of sex in advertising from its roots in the 1700s to online advertising today and beyond.
The book is must reading for advertising and gender researchers, scholars, and students. Anyone interested in mass media, consumer psychology, and popular culture will find this book an essential resource.

Advertising (Paperback, 4th edition): Frank Jefkins, Daniel Yadin Advertising (Paperback, 4th edition)
Frank Jefkins, Daniel Yadin
R1,954 Discovery Miles 19 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This best-selling book looks at the structure and organisation of the industry, how campaigns are constructed and costed, the various methods of promotion, above-the-line and below-the-line costs, legal and ethical issues, market research and much, much more. The new edition has been fully updated and contains updated material on advertising departments, TV franchises, corporate video and satellite broadcasting. Case studies are used to bring the subject into the real world.

A Japanese Advertising Agency - An Anthropology of Media and Markets (Hardcover): Brian Moeran A Japanese Advertising Agency - An Anthropology of Media and Markets (Hardcover)
Brian Moeran
R4,512 Discovery Miles 45 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This monograph is a formal account of the structure and organization of a large Japanese advertising agency. Based on a year's fieldwork in a Tokyo-based agency, the book presents a case study of an advertising campaign to outline the complex relations that exist between different divisions (Account, Planning, Marketing, Creative) within an advertising agency, and between the agency and the client, on the one hand, and the agency and media, on the other.

Strategic Sport Communication - Traditional and Transmedia Strategies for a Global Sports Market (Hardcover): W.Timothy Coombs,... Strategic Sport Communication - Traditional and Transmedia Strategies for a Global Sports Market (Hardcover)
W.Timothy Coombs, Jennifer L. Harker
R4,491 Discovery Miles 44 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

By taking a strategic communication approach, the text integrates public relations, marketing communication, and advertising concepts and tailors them to the particular context of sport communication. Sport communication is a growing focus of students within public relations and strategic communication programs, and this text merges these fields to give students a comprehensive guide to constructing strategic communication efforts in the sports arena. Most books provide a broad overview of sports media and communication or a narrower view of public relations in a sports context; this book broadens the latter's scope to include marketing and advertising considerations, while still providing a practical guide to creating strategic communication campaigns.

All Marketers are Liars - The Underground Classic That Explains How Marketing Really Works--and Why Authenticity Is the Best... All Marketers are Liars - The Underground Classic That Explains How Marketing Really Works--and Why Authenticity Is the Best Marketing of All (Paperback)
Seth Godin 1
R394 R364 Discovery Miles 3 640 Save R30 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Seth Godin's three essential questions for every marketer:
"What's your story?"
"Will the people who need to hear this story believe it?"
"Is it true?"
All marketers tell stories. And if they do it right, we believe them. We believe that wine tastes better in a $20 glass than a $1 glass. We believe that an $80,000 Porsche is vastly superior to a $36,000 Volkswagen that's virtually the same car. We believe that $125 sneakers make our feet feel better--and look cooler--than a $25 brand. And believing it makes it true.
As Seth Godin showed in this controversial book, great marketers don't talk about features or even benefits. Instead, they tell a story--a story we "want" to believe, whether it's factual or not. In a world where most people have an infinite number of choices and no time to make them, every organization is a marketer, and all marketing is about telling stories.
Marketers succeed when they tell us a story that fits our worldview, a story that we intuitively embrace and then share with our friends. Think of the Dyson vacuum cleaner, or Fiji water, or the iPod.
But beware: If your stories are inauthentic, you cross the line from fib to fraud. Marketers fail when they are selfish and scurrilous, when they abuse the tools of their trade and make the world worse. That's a lesson learned the hard way by telemarketers, cigarette companies, and sleazy politicians.
But for the rest of us, it's time to embrace the power of the story. As Godin writes, "Stories make it easier to understand the world. Stories are the only way we know to spread an idea. Marketers didn't invent storytelling. They just perfected it."

Contemporary Issues in Digital Marketing - New Paradigms, Perspectives and Practices (Paperback): John Branch Contemporary Issues in Digital Marketing - New Paradigms, Perspectives and Practices (Paperback)
John Branch
R932 R851 Discovery Miles 8 510 Save R81 (9%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The theme of this book is digital marketing. We now live in the digital age - indeed, there are more than 3 billion people connected to the internet. For every 100 people on the planet, there are 96 mobile telephone subscriptions. And more and more of our everyday objects - cuddly toys, cars, even kettles - have created an "internet of things." It is no surprise, therefore, that companies are eager to harness this digital world. Marketers, in particular, hope that so-called digital marketing will allow them to gain new customer insights, refine customer segmentation, and communicate to customers more efficiently and effectively. They anticipate that the digital age will offer possibilities for new product innovation, advanced methods for engaging customers and original vehicles for creating brand communities. Despite the pervasiveness of digital technologies, however, digital marketing is seemingly still in its infancy. To begin, what exactly is digital marketing? The term is commonly used, but its meaning - its scope, outline, boundary and limits - is far from concise. This book explores the realities of digital marketing, with contributions from both academics and practitioners who are experts in the field.

Bridging Disciplinary Perspectives of Country Image Reputation, Brand, and Identity (Paperback): Diana Ingenhoff, Candace... Bridging Disciplinary Perspectives of Country Image Reputation, Brand, and Identity (Paperback)
Diana Ingenhoff, Candace White, Alexander Buhmann, Spiro Kiousis
R1,301 Discovery Miles 13 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Country image and related constructs, such as country reputation, brand, and identity, have been subjects of debate in fields such as marketing, psychology, sociology, communication, and political science. This volume provides an overview of current scholarship, places related research interests across disciplines in a common context, and illustrates connections among the constructs. Discussing how different scholarly perspectives can be applied to answer a broad range of related research questions, this volume aims to contribute to the emergence of a more theoretical, open, and interdisciplinary study of country image, reputation, brand, and identity.

Negotiating Values in the Creative Industries - Fairs, Festivals and Competitive Events (Paperback): Brian Moeran, Jesper... Negotiating Values in the Creative Industries - Fairs, Festivals and Competitive Events (Paperback)
Brian Moeran, Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen
R1,360 Discovery Miles 13 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Fairs, festivals and competitive events play a crucial role in the creative industries; yet their significance has been largely overlooked. This book explores the role of such events through a series of studies that include some of the most iconic fairs and festivals in the world. It brings together a team of distinguished scholars to examine art fairs, biennales, auctions, book fairs, television programming markets, film festivals, animation film festivals, country music festivals, fashion weeks, wine classifications and wine tasting events. This diverse set of studies shows that such events serve a variety of purposes: as field-configuring events (FCEs), as a way of ritualising industry practices and as 'tournaments of values' where participants negotiate different cultural values to resolve economic issues. Suitable for academics and practitioners, this book presents a fascinating perspective on the role and importance of fairs, festivals and competitive events in the creative industries.

Freud on Madison Avenue - Motivation Research and Subliminal Advertising in America (Paperback): Lawrence R Samuel Freud on Madison Avenue - Motivation Research and Subliminal Advertising in America (Paperback)
Lawrence R Samuel
R710 Discovery Miles 7 100 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

What do consumers really want? In the mid-twentieth century, many marketing executives sought to answer this question by looking to the theories of Sigmund Freud and his followers. By the 1950s, Freudian psychology had become the adman's most powerful new tool, promising to plumb the depths of shoppers' subconscious minds to access the irrational desires beneath their buying decisions. That the unconscious was the key to consumer behavior was a new idea in the field of advertising, and its impact was felt beyond the commercial realm.Centered on the fascinating lives of the brilliant men and women who brought psychoanalytic theories and practices from Europe to Madison Avenue and, ultimately, to Main Street, "Freud on Madison Avenue" tells the story of how midcentury advertisers changed American culture. Paul Lazarsfeld, Herta Herzog, James Vicary, Alfred Politz, Pierre Martineau, and the father of motivation research, Viennese-trained psychologist Ernest Dichter, adapted techniques from sociology, anthropology, and psychology to help their clients market consumer goods. Many of these researchers had fled the Nazis in the 1930s, and their decidedly Continental and intellectual perspectives on secret desires and inner urges sent shockwaves through WASP-dominated postwar American culture and commerce.Though popular, these qualitative research and persuasion tactics were not without critics in their time. Some of the tools the motivation researchers introduced, such as the focus group, are still in use, with "consumer insights" and "account planning" direct descendants of Freudian psychological techniques. Looking back, author Lawrence R. Samuel implicates Dichter's positive spin on the pleasure principle in the hedonism of the Baby Boomer generation, and he connects the acceptance of psychoanalysis in marketing culture to the rise of therapeutic culture in the United States.

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