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• Eradicating the Stain

  http://eserver.org/bs/20/Luna.html
  What's the difference between advertising and graffiti?

• How powerful is advertising?

  http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97jun/advert.htm
  A review of Breaking Up America, by Joseph Turow. From the Atlantic Monthly.

• Subliminal Advertising

  http://www.poleshift.org/sublim/
  Numerous examples and commentary on a range of subliminal adverts. Analysis is based on the work of Wilson Key.

• The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception

  http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm
  A chapter from Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment on the mass-production of culture.

• Toward a critical theory of advertising

  http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/kell6.htm
  An analysis of advertising within a critical theory of society which combines historical, sociological, cultural, and political analysis.

 

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