Packaged pleasures : how technology & marketing revolutionized desire / Gary S. Cross & Robert N. Proctor.
By: Cross, Gary S [author.].
Contributor(s): Proctor, Robert [author.].
Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2014]Description: 352 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780226121277 (cloth : alk. paper).Subject(s): Packaging -- Technological innovations -- Psychological aspects | Packaging -- Technological innovations -- Social aspects | Marketing -- Technological innovations -- Psychological aspects | Marketing -- Technological innovations -- Social aspects | Consumer behavior | Technological innovations -- Psychological aspects | Technological innovations -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | T173.8 .C767 2014 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000010876 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?