Image Makers

Advertising, Public Relations, and the Ethos of Advocacy

By: Robert Jackall, Janice M. Hirota

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Paperback | 15 September 2003 | Edition Number 1

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Talking dogs pitching ethnic food. Heart-tugging appeals for contributions. Recruitment calls for enlistment in the military. Tub-thumpers excoriating American society with over-the-top rhetoric. At every turn, Americans are exhorted to spend money, join organizations, rally to causes, or express outrage. Image Makers is a comprehensive analysis of modern advocacy-from commercials to public service ads to government propaganda-and its roots in advertising and public relations.

Robert Jackall and Janice M. Hirota explore the fashioning of the apparatus of advocacy through the stories of two organizations, the Committee on Public Information, which sold the Great War to the American public, and the Advertising Council, which since the Second World War has been the main coordinator of public service advertising. They then turn to the career of William Bernbach, the adman's adman, who reinvented advertising and grappled creatively with the profound skepticism of a propaganda-weary midcentury public. Jackall and Hirota argue that the tools-in-trade and habits of mind of "image makers" have now migrated into every corner of modern society. Advocacy is now a vocation for many, and American society abounds as well with "technicians in moral outrage," including street-smart impresarios, feminist preachers, and bombastic talk-radio hosts.

The apparatus and ethos of advocacy give rise to endlessly shifting patterns of conflicting representations and claims, and in their midst Image Makers offers a clear and spirited understanding of advocacy in contemporary society and the quandaries it generates.

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Non-Fiction Business & Management Sales & Marketing Public Relations Sales & Marketing Advertising Society & Culture Media Studies Industry & Industrial Studies Media, Entertainment, Information & Communication Industries Sociology & Anthropology History General & World History

Funhouse Mirrors The Apparatus of Advocacy
Advertising the Great War
Public Relations for Advertising The Ethos of Advocacy
Turning the World Upside Down
Advocacy as a Profession
Habits of Mind
Advocacy as a Vocation The Discernment of Representations
Make-Believe Worlds
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