Rhetorics of the overlooked: On the communicative modes of stock advertising images

Journal of Consumer Culture

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 171-196

  Frosh, Paul ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Consumption; Cultural production; Myth; Narrative; Ordinariness; Stock photography; Visual culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442500495     PISSN: 14695405     EISSN: 17412900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/146954050200200202     Document Type: Article

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