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Essay #3: Advertising & Identity

The Assignment: For this assignment you will need to find three or four print (from magazines or newspapers) or online ads you feel are aimed at you in some way or ads that feature representations of a group with which you identify. These ads might be directed at or feature people of your gender, sexual [...]

Class Meeting in Library on Monday, 10/23

We will be meeting in Simpson library on Monday, 10/23 during our regular class meeting. Go to the classroom on the second floor of the library; librarian Jack Bales will be conducting this class which will start at 6 p.m. promptly. You will not need your laptops, afterall, but feel free to bring them if [...]

Susan Bordo’s “Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body”

Cheerios/V-8 Ad from the 1960s

The Apple “1984″ ad

The “HillTop” Coca-Cola Ad

Deconstructing Ads

Assignment for Wednesday’s class (10/11): In order to work through some of the ideas we have been discussing in class -in particular, Susan Douglas’s notion of “deconstructing” the messages of advertisements- I would like each of you to do the following in your blogs: First, examine the two images from adflip.com below and explain the [...]

History and Advertising

What do these two ads tell us about their respective time periods? The 1940s The 1990s

Commercials from Douglas Reading

 

Class is Cancelled Tonight, 9/27/06

Please have the assignments due tonight prepared for Monday, October st.  Also, be sure to finish up the workshopping in the wikis for all the members of your group. See you Monday.