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The Business of America

- How Consumers Have Replaced Citizens and How We Can Reverse the Trend
Af: Saul Landau Engelsk Paperback

The Business of America

- How Consumers Have Replaced Citizens and How We Can Reverse the Trend
Af: Saul Landau Engelsk Paperback
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When President Bush promoted shopping as a patriotic duty, the American culture of consumption hit a new low. But a quiet revolution is growing in the developing world and in a new generation of Americans, fighting the advance of the shopping malls and the desolation they leave behind. Written by one of the most insightful critics of American commercialism, The Business of America probes the forces that have transformed citizens into consumers eager to take as much as they can from the planet. From on-line shopping to spectator sports to the cash-and-carry ethos of political campaigns, Saul Landau decodes the subtle ways in which advertising images tell us to correct our inadequacies with more things: SUVs, credit cards, air conditioning, video games. The winds of change are blowing, Landau shows, from resurgent student protests for underpaid janitors to the Group of 21, the developing countries that stopped the World Trade Organization dead in its tracks in 2003. Eschewing nostalgia for a simpler time--a less-interconnected world that can never return-The Business of America shows how we as citizens can regain our identities, stripping away the plastic overlay of consumerism.
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When President Bush promoted shopping as a patriotic duty, the American culture of consumption hit a new low. But a quiet revolution is growing in the developing world and in a new generation of Americans, fighting the advance of the shopping malls and the desolation they leave behind. Written by one of the most insightful critics of American commercialism, The Business of America probes the forces that have transformed citizens into consumers eager to take as much as they can from the planet. From on-line shopping to spectator sports to the cash-and-carry ethos of political campaigns, Saul Landau decodes the subtle ways in which advertising images tell us to correct our inadequacies with more things: SUVs, credit cards, air conditioning, video games. The winds of change are blowing, Landau shows, from resurgent student protests for underpaid janitors to the Group of 21, the developing countries that stopped the World Trade Organization dead in its tracks in 2003. Eschewing nostalgia for a simpler time--a less-interconnected world that can never return-The Business of America shows how we as citizens can regain our identities, stripping away the plastic overlay of consumerism.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 216
ISBN-13: 9780415944694
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0415944694
Kategori: Kulturstudier
Udg. Dato: 15 jun 2004
Længde: 0mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 229mm
Forlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oplagsdato: 15 jun 2004
Forfatter(e): Saul Landau
Forfatter(e) Saul Landau

Kategori Kulturstudier

ISBN-13 9780415944694

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 216

Udgave

Længde 0mm

Bredde 152mm

Højde 229mm

Udg. Dato 15 jun 2004

Oplagsdato 15 jun 2004

Forlag Taylor & Francis Ltd