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Swift viewing : the popular life of subliminal influence /

Acland looks back at the strange history of subliminal seduction: a theory first propagated in the late 1950s by marketing researcher James Vicary, who claimed that movie audiences bought more refreshments if advertising messages too quick to be noticed were inserted into movies. The study was soon...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Acland, Charles R., 1963-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.
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Résumé:Acland looks back at the strange history of subliminal seduction: a theory first propagated in the late 1950s by marketing researcher James Vicary, who claimed that movie audiences bought more refreshments if advertising messages too quick to be noticed were inserted into movies. The study was soon proven false, but that hasn't kept the concept from having a long afterlife in the popular imagination.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (xiv, 307 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0822393778
9780822393771
1283409100
9781283409100