Focusing directly on the world of commercial images, Sut Jhally asks some basic questions about the cultural messages emanating from this market-based view of the world: Do our present arrangements deliver what they claim -- happiness and satisfaction? Can we think about our collective as well as our private interests? And, can we think long-term as well as short-term?
Arguing that advertising not only sells things, but also ideas about the world, media scholar Sut Jh...
Chronicles the growth of the advertising industry from the 1950s through today, looking at the real ...
On Wednesday 27th January 1999, Whiskas Singles made advertising history. The first-ever commercial ...
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational mod...
The art of the "pitch" and its role in society, as told by many of the pitch industry's greatest sal...
Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual cu...
Every year, thousands of commercials are made that never reach our TV screens, deemed too shocking t...
From 1957 —the year in which the Soviets put the Sputnik 1 satellite into orbit— to 1969 —when Ameri...
A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed...
Hollywood movies are rapidly becoming vehicles for the ulterior marketing and advertising motives of...
The Smurfs were created in 1958 by the Belgian comic author Peyo (Pierre Culliford, 1928-1992) and t...
The personal odysseys of some of the most influential advertising visionaries of all time and the st...
A porn-loving, Charles Manson-befriending, Mississippi Republican runs to become the next sheriff.
A documentary about branding, advertising and product placement that is financed and made possible b...
Once upon a time... consumer goods were built to last. Then, in the 1920’s, a group of businessmen r...
A documentary about the legendary Japanese filmmaker.
A documentary on the marketing of pop culture to Teenagers.
TVTV turns its critical eye to the world of advertising in Adland, subtitled Where Commercials Come ...
Programming the Nation? takes an encompassing look at the history of subliminal messaging in America...
Advertising shits in your head. London artists are taking to the streets to reclaim public spaces an...