Channels of Desire: Mass Images and the Shaping of American Consciousness.

Abstract

Part 1 bribe of Frankenstein: Gears of progress capture of the eye. Part 2 Consumption as a way of life: The system is the solution An American metamorphosis The magic of the marketplace Changing the subject. Part 3 City lights: immigrant women and the rise of the movies. Part 4 Fashion and democracy: The ends justify the jeans In the beginning . . . cloak of morality three faces of Eve Labor and cloth Images of democracy backrooms of fashion Avenues of display New patterns sirens of style commerce of choice History and clothes consciousness. Part 5 Mass culture and the moral economy of war: Through a glass darkly Channels of fear Individualism as conformity Windows on the world Billboards of the future. Conclusion: Shadows on the wall.