Radio active advertising and consumer activism, 1935-1947 /
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the dialectic between advertising and activism
- Cultural critics in the age of radio
- The psychology of radio advertising: audience intellectuals and the resentment of radio commercials
- "Poisons, potions and profits": radio activists and the origins of the consumer movement
- Consumers on the march: CIO boycotts, active listeners, and consumer time
- The consumer revolt of "Mr. Average Man": the CIO boycott of Philco
- Radio and Boake Carter
- Washboard weepers: women writers, women listeners and the debate over soap operas
- "I won't buy you anything but love, baby": NBC, Donald Montgomery, and the post-war consumer revolt
- Conclusion: high-class hucksters: the rise and fall of a radio republic.