Advertising, once seen as 'the official art of capitalist society' is an increasingly commonplace component of a characteristically promotional culture. Iain MacRury's Advertising offers the means to explore and evaluate this transition with an introduction to advertising for the contemporary reader.Advertising provides a clear and easy guide to a

Iain MacRury is Principal Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of East London. His previous publications include The Dynamics of Advertising (co-authored with Barry Richards and Jackie Botterill, 2000) and Buy This Book: Studies in Advertising and Consumption (co-edited with Mica Nava, Andrew Blake and Barry Richards, 1996).

Introduction 1. Advertising and Common Sense 2. Advertising Agencies: Mediation and the Creative Process 3. Advertising: Marketing, Media and Communication 4. Analysing and historicising advertising 5. Advertising and Culture 6. Advertising: Signs and Textualities 7. Advertising: New Forms and Intimacies 8. Advertising: Audiences and Psychologies Bibliography