List of figures ................................................ ix
List of tables and transcripts ................................. xi
Acknowledgements ............................................. xiii
1 Advertising images and discourse ............................. 1
Imaging in advertising ....................................... 3
Defining discourse ........................................... 6
Exploited discourse elements in advertising .................. 9
Overview of chapters ........................................ 13
2 Smoke and mirrors-circulating racial images in cigarette
advertising ................................................. 15
Race and cigarettes ......................................... 18
Tobacco industry targeting of African Americans ............. 21
The cultural text of racialized ads ......................... 23
Verbal and visual imaging in black and white ................ 33
Conclusions and implications ................................ 58
3 Keeping race in place-multicultural visions and voices in
teen advertising ............................................ 62
Ideological codes and diversity ............................. 65
Teen demographics and cultural diversity .................... 68
Representation and "doing diversity" in advertising ......... 71
The uneasy representation of cultural diversity in teen
advertising ................................................. 80
Conclusions and implications ............................... 102
4 Different tropes for different folks-advertising and
face-fixing ................................................ 106
Advertising and beauty as a never-ending quest ............. 107
Thematic tropes for fixing the face ........................ 114
Conclusions and implications ............................... 141
5 Madison Avenue meets Silicon Valley-technology imprints
on advertising ............................................. 154
The who and what of technology use ......................... 158
Technographic discourse types in advertising ............... 164
Conclusions and implications ............................... 203
6 From Barbie to BudTV-advertising in the Fifth Frame ........ 206
Conceptual foundations ..................................... 207
Narratives as advertising text ............................. 214
Self absorption and the Fifth Frame meet the Internet ...... 221
Conclusions and implications ............................... 232
References .................................................... 236
Index ......................................................... 245
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