Advertising Resources
General Sites
A great site with links to ads and articles
McHenry Library's resources on popular culture, including ads
Search for books on social significants of ads at UCSC
Sources for Ads
Signs of Life has a gallery (also a website for 5th and 6th editions)
McHenry Library has lots of current magazines downstairs that you can xerox.
Many
historical small UK http://www.advertisingarchives.co.uk/gallery_indexpage.php
Historical Apple ads http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/gallery9.html
Benneton Gallery http://press.benettongroup.com/ben_en/image_gallery/
Absolut vodka ad archive http://www.absolutad.org/
Ann
Simonton's site http://www.mediawatch.com/gallery/
About-Face
http://www.about-face.org/
Investigate stereotypes of women found in advertising through galleries of print
ads, statistics and activism campaigns. Note: Be sure to preview gallery content
before classroom use.
Advertisement Avenue
http://www.advertisementave.com/
Tap this free archive of television commercials for an abundant source of content
for advertising analysis.
Center for Media and Democracy
http://www.prwatch.org/
Find out how this watchdog group seeks to recognize and combat manipulative
and misleading public relations practices.
Commercial Alert
http://commercialalert.org/
Learn about this organizations mission to contain commercialism and its potentially
negative influences on culture, education, government and health.
Video:
Classic Commercials The Early Years / [Videorecording] : Madacy Entertainment
St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada : Madacy Entertainment, 2002
Film & Music DVD1647 v.1
Film & Music DVD1647 v.2 Downstairs in McHenry Library
Articles
Jib Fowles "Advertising's Fifteen Basic Appeals"
Diane Barthel, "A Gentleman and a Consumer"
Jhally, Sut "Image Based Culture" (pdf)
Signs
of Life website has links to online articles
Culture Jamming
Adbusters (also Wikipedia entry)
Culture
Jam [videorecording] : hijacking commercial culture / a film by Jill Sharpe
Published New York, NY : First Run/Icarus Films [distributor], 2001
Film & Music VT9035 McHenry Library (downstairs) site
with trailer
Barbie Liberation Organization video excerpt
Videos
The Ad And The Ego: Truth And Consequences / [Videorecording] : [Presented By]
Parallax Pictures ; Produced By Harold Boihem & Chris Emmanouilide
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, c1996
Film & Music VT4915
Killing
Us Softly 3 / [Videorecording] / Created By Jean Kilbourne ; Producer, Director,
Editor, Sut Jhally
Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, c2000 YouTube
excerpt
The
Merchants Of Cool / [Videorecording] / [Produced By] WGBH For Frontline
Boston : WGBH Educational Foundation ; [distributed by] PBS Video, c2001
Film & Music VT7793
Persuasion,
Propaganda, And Photography / [Videorecording]
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2002
Film & Music DVD2200
Reviving
Ophelia Saving : The Selves Of Adolescent Girls / [Videorecording] : A Media
Education Foundation Production
Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, 1998
Film & Music VT7080 YouTube
preview
Slim
Hopes: Advertising And The Obsession With Thinness / [Videorecording] : Written
& Presented By Jean Kilbourne
Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, c1995 YouTube
excerpt
Spin
the bottle [videorecording] : sex, lies and alcohol / Media Education Foundation
; producer/editor, Ronit Ridberg
Published Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, c2004
Film & Music DVD2234
Western
Eyes [videorecording] / produced by the National Film Board of Canada ; directed
by Ann Shin ;
Published New York, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, c2000
Film & Music DVD5572
Examines the search for beauty and self-acceptance through the experiences of
a young Filipina and Korean woman living in Canada who both believe their appearance,
specifically their eyes, affect the way they are perceived. Both feel unsettled
in Western society and are contemplating cosmetic surgery on their eyes. Layering
interviews with references to super models and other pop-culture icons of beauty,
the filmmaker captures the pain that almost always lies behind the desire for
plastic surgery
What
a Girl Wants [videorecording] / a film by Matthew Buzzell, Elizabeth Massie,
Jacob Bricca ;
Published Northhampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, c2000
Film & Music VT8192
Eleven girls ages 8 to 16 and two classrooms of middle and high school students
discuss their views on mass media and how it impacts their lives
Books
(see also search link at top of page)
Ads, Fads, And Consumer
Culture : Advertising's Impact On American Character And Society
/ Arthur Asa Berger. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2000
McH Stacks HF5823 .B438 2000
Adcult USA : The Triumph
Of Advertising In American Culture / James B. Twitchell
New York : Columbia University Press, 1996
McH Stacks HF5813.U6 T87 1996
Advertising And Popular
Culture / Jib Fowles
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1996
McH Stacks HF5805 .F69 1996
Captains Of Consciousness
: Advertising And The Social Roots Of The Consumer Culture / by
Stuart Ewen.
New York : McGraw-Hill, c1976.
McH Stacks HF5813.U6E94
Soap, Sex, And Cigarettes
: A Cultural History Of American Advertising / Juliann Sivulka
Belmont, CA : Wadsworth, c1998
McH Stacks HF5813.U6 S55 1998
The Age of Missing Information
/ Bill McKibben
Published New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006
McH Stacks PN1992.6 .M38 2006
"Imagine watching an entire day’s worth of television on every single
channel. Acclaimed environmental writer and culture critic Bill McKibben subjected
himself to this sensory overload in an experiment to verify whether we are truly
better informed than previous generations. Bombarded with newscasts and fluff
pieces, game shows and talk shows, ads and infomercials, televangelist pleas
and Brady Bunch episodes, McKibben processed twenty-four hours of programming
on all ninety-three Fairfax, Virginia, cable stations. Then, as a counterpoint,
he spent a day atop a quiet and remote mountain in the Adirondacks, exploring
the unmediated man and making small yet vital discoveries about himself and
the world around him. As relevant now as it was when originally written in 1992–and
with new material from the author on the impact of the Internet age–this
witty and astute book is certain to change the way you look at television and
perceive media as a whole."