Special affects : cinema, animation and the translation of consumer culture / Eric S. Jenkins. by Jenkins, Eric S.

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Forests and Development : Local, National and Global Issues. by Delacote, Philippe

Table of Contents: “…; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Political consumerism in the light of economic theory; 5.3 Political consumerism against market failures?…”
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Functional inefficiency the unexpected benefits of wasting time and money / Peter S. Wenz by Wenz, Peter S.

Table of Contents: “…Functional Inefficiency in Healthcare; 8. Consumerism and Individual Discontent; 9. Consumerism, Competition, and Social Disaffection; 10. …”
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Investigated reporting : muckrakers, regulators, and the struggle over television documentary / Chad Raphael. by Raphael, Chad, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Investigating poverty and welfare -- Investigating the cold war -- Investigating business and consumerism -- Dividing and distracting the media -- The ethics of representation -- The politics of regulation -- The privatization of regulation -- Media, state, and investigative reporting.…”

Casting masculinity in Spanish film : negotiating identity in a consumer age / Mary Hartson. by Hartson, Mary

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: masculinity and consumerism in Spanish cinema -- Hegemonic masculinity under the dictatorship -- Breakdown of the hegemonic male model -- The new Spain: desire and commodification of the Spanish body -- Individualism, alienation and adaptation.…”
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Investigated reporting : muckrakers, regulators, and the struggle over television documentary / Chad Raphael. by Raphael, Chad, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Investigating poverty and welfare -- Investigating the cold war -- Investigating business and consumerism -- Dividing and distracting the media -- The ethics of representation -- The politics of regulation -- The privatization of regulation -- Media, state, and investigative reporting.…”
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Colonialism, Han, and the Transformative Spirit. by Kim, Grace Ji-Sun

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Biography; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Empire, Colonialism, and Globalization; 2 Consumerism and Overconsumption; 3 Nature and Han; 4 Transformative Power of the Spirit; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.…”
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The unmanageable consumer / Yiannis Gabriel & Tim Lang. by Gabriel, Yiannis, 1952-, Lang, Tim

Table of Contents: “…The emergence of contemporary consumerism -- The consumer as chooser -- The consumer as communicator -- The consumer as explorer -- The consumer as identity-seeker -- The consumer as hedonist -- The consumer as victim -- The consumer as rebel -- The consumer as activist -- The consumer as citizen -- The consumer as worker -- The unmanageable consumer.…”
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The new Japanese woman : modernity, media, and women in interwar Japan / Barbara Sato. by Sato, Barbara Hamill

Table of Contents: “…Women and the reality of the everyday -- The emergence of agency : women and consumerism -- The modern girl as a representation of consumer culture -- Housewives as reading women -- Work for life, for marriage, for love -- Hard days ahead : women on the move.…”

The new Japanese woman : modernity, media, and women in interwar Japan / Barbara Sato. by Sato, Barbara Hamill

Table of Contents: “…Women and the reality of the everyday -- The emergence of agency : women and consumerism -- The modern girl as a representation of consumer culture -- Housewives as reading women -- Work for life, for marriage, for love -- Hard days ahead : women on the move.…”
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On drugs / David Lenson. by Lenson, David, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…PART I: Drugs, Sobriety, and the Metaphysics of Consumerism -- PART II: What Drugs Do and Don't -- PART III: Five Drug Studies -- PART IV: Problems with Drugs -- CONCLUSION: Toward a Diversity of Consciousness.…”
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Modern art : a very short introduction / David Cottington. by Cottington, David

Table of Contents: “…-- Tracking the avant-garde -- Modern media, modern messages -- From Picasso to pop idols: the eminence of the artist -- Alchemical practices: modern art and consumerism -- Past the post: whatever next?…”
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Trends in apparel marketing / Meridian Education Corporation.

Table of Contents: “…Fashion's New Consumerism (3:35) -- Globalizing Garment Manufacturing (3:15) -- Mixed Merchandise vs. …”
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Pleasures and perils : girls' sexuality in a Caribbean consumer culture / Debra Curtis. by Curtis, Debra, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Globalizing Nevis : radical shifts from subsistence to consumerism -- Competing discourses and morality at play -- Consuming global scripts : media, sex, and desire -- The state and sexualities -- Rethinking sexual-economic exchange -- Theorizing sexual pleasure -- Conclusion.…”
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American Theater in the Culture of the Cold War : Producing and Contesting Containment, 1947-1962. by Mcconachie, Bruce A.

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 A Theater of Containment Liberalism; 2 Empty Boys, Queer Others, and Consumerism; 3 Family Circles, Racial Others, and Suburbanization; 4 Fragmented Heroes, Female Others, and the Bomb; Epilogue; Notes; Index.…”
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American values : opposing viewpoints / Mary E. Williams, book editor.

Table of Contents: “…Last -- Popular culture undermines American values / Steve Bonta -- Popular culture does not undermine American values / John Derbyshire -- Consumerism harms American culture / Dolores Curran -- Consumerism benefits American culture / James B. …”

Bought & sold : living and losing the good life in socialist Yugoslavia / Patrick Hyder Patterson. by Patterson, Patrick Hyder, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : the good life and the Yugoslav dream -- Introduction : getting it : making sense of socialist consumer culture -- Living it : Yugoslavia's economic miracle -- Making it : building a socialist brand of market culture -- Selling it : legitimizing the appeal of market culture -- Fearing it : the values of Marxism and the contradictions of consumerism -- Taming it : the party-state establishment and the perils of pleasure -- Fighting it : New Left attacks on the consumerist establishment and the Yugoslav dream -- Loving it : ordinary people, everyday life, and the power of consumption -- Needing it : the eclipse of the dream, the collapse of communism, and the death of Yugoslavia -- Epilogue : missing it : Yugo-nostalgia and the good life lost.…”
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Killing us softly 4 : advertising's image of women.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Ads Everywhere -- A Constructed Beauty -- Objectification -- Judged by Looks Alone -- Thinness -- Dieting -- Eating & Morality -- Global Impact -- Infantilization & Powerlessness -- Advertising & Sex -- Experienced Virgins -- Consumerism & Sexualizing Products -- Masculinity -- Violence -- What to do?…”

Minerva's Night Out : Philosophy, Pop Culture, and Moving Pictures. by Carroll, Noël

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- II. Consumerism -- III. Ethics and the evils of consumerism -- IV. …”
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Change, Change / Sunrise Media LLC.

Table of Contents: “…Consumerism (1:01) -- Economic Growth vs. Environment (4:00) -- Personal Narrative (1:59) -- Nature vs. …”
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