Manufacturing Desire: Media, Popular Culture, and Everyday Life

by Arthur Asa Berger

Book Overview

The average person in America watches four hours of television per day and spends the equivalent of nine years of his or her life in front of the television set. If the attention most people devote to popular culture - listening to the news, watching soap operas, reading the comics-were added up, it would reveal that most people spend an enormous amount of time with popular culture which becomes in large measure, their culture. "Manufacturing Desire"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412807654
• ISBN13: 9781412807654
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.8"