Advertising at war: business, consumers, and government in the 1940s
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1. Verfasser: Stole, Inger L. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Urbana University of Illinois Press ©2012
Schriftenreihe:History of communication
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Prelude to war -- Advertising navigates the defense economy -- The initial year of the Advertising Council -- The consumer movement's return -- Advertising, Washington, and the renamed War Advertising Council -- The increasing role of the War Advertising Council -- Peace and the reconversion of the Advertising Council
Inger L. Stole challenges the notion that advertising disappeared as a political issue in the United States in 1938 with the passage of the Wheeler-Lea Amendment to the Federal Trade Commission Act, the result of more than a decade of campaigning to regulate the advertising industry. She suggests that the war experience, even more than the legislative battles of the 1930s, defined the role of advertising in U.S. postwar political economy and the nation's cultural firmament. Using archival sources, newspapers accounts, and trade publications, Stole demonstrates that the postwar climate of political intolerance and reverence for free enterprise quashed critical investigations into the advertising industry. While advertising could be criticized or lampooned, the institution itself became inviolable
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ISBN:0252094239
9780252094231
025203712X
9780252037122
9781283712613
128371261X
9780252078651
0252078659

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