Bibliograph

Packaged pleasures, how technology & marketing revolutionized desire, Gary S. Cross & Robert N. Proctor

Type

Label

Packaged pleasures, how technology & marketing revolutionized desire, Gary S. Cross & Robert N. Proctor

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Packaged pleasures

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Gary S. Cross & Robert N. Proctor

Sub title

how technology & marketing revolutionized desire

Table Of Contents

The carrot and the candy bar -- Containing civilization, preserving the ephemeral, going tubular -- The cigarette story -- Superfoods and the engineered origins of the modern sweet tooth -- Portable packets of sound: the birth of the phonograph and record -- Packaging sight: projections, snapshots, and motion pictures -- Packaging fantasy: the amusement park as mechanized circus, electric theater, and commercialized spectacle -- Pleasure on speed and the calibrated life: fast forwarding through the last century -- Red raspberries all the time?

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