Screen LibraryCon：how markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole
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W.W. Norton & Co.,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 406 p.: ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780393049619 (hardcover) 0393049612 (hardcover) 9780393330892 (pbk.) 0393330893 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | F171 |
| CLC: | F171.247 |
| Call Number: | F171.247/B234 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-381) and index. The birth of consumers. Capitalism triumphant and the infantilist ethos ; From protestantism to puerility -- The eclipse of citizens. Infantilizing consumers: the coming of kidults ; Privatizing citizens: the making of civic schizophrenia ; Branding identities: the loss of meaning ; Totalizing society: the end of diversity -- The fate of citizens. Resisting consumerism: can capitalism cure itself? ; Overcoming civic schizophrenia: restoring citizenship in a world of interdependence. |