Sold separately : children and parents in consumer culture /
Ellen Seiter.
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1995, �1993.
- 1 online resource (xii, 257 pages) : illustrations.
- Rutgers series in communications, media, and culture .
- Rutgers series in communications, media, and culture. .
Includes bibliographical references ([235]-238) and index.
Children's desires/mothers' dilemmas, the social contexts of consumption -- Buying happiness, buying success, toy advertising to parents -- The real power of commercials, questioning the terms of debate -- Utopia or discrimination? Commercials for kids -- Toy-based videos for girls, My Little Pony -- Action TV for boys, Slimer and the real Ghostbusters -- Toys "R" Us, marketing to children and parents.
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Television advertising and children--United States. Child consumers--United States. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Advertising & Promotion. Child consumers. Television advertising and children.