advertising

scientific organization

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

sociologist

communication scholar

is capitalist realist art and although it does not have monopoly over the symbolic marketplace, different social groups are differentially vulnerable especially during transitional stages of their lives.

Raymond Williams has argued that advertising is a 'magic system,' and Michael Schudson has taken this a step further by contending that advertising is 'capitalist realist art' and that, although it does not have monopoly over the symbolic marketplace, different social groups are differentially vulnerable especially during transitional stages of their lives. This form of art idealized the consumer and portrays as normative, special moments of satisfaction including sexual satisfaction. It 'reminds us of beautiful moments in our lives or it pictures marginal moments we would like to experience. (xxi-xxiii)

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Michael Schudson