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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Acland, Charles R., 1963-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Subliminal communication as vernacular media critique
  • Mind, media, and remote control
  • The swift view
  • Mind-probing ad-men
  • Crossing the popular threshold
  • The hidden and the overload
  • From mass brainwashing to rapid mass learning
  • Textual strategies for media saturation
  • Critical reasoning in a cluttered age.