Beschreibung:
Focusing on consumption controversies, Cronin contends that advertising is constituted of 'circuits of belief' that flow between practitioners, clients, regulators, consumers and academics.
List of plates Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction 1. Images, commodities and compulsions: consumption controversies of the nineteenth century 2. Advertising as site of contestation: criticisms, controversy and regulation 3. Advertising agencies: commercial reproduction and the management of belief 4. Animating images: advertisements, texts, commodities 5. Advertising reconsidered Notes Bibliography Index