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The personal odysseys of some of the most influential advertising visionaries of all time and the stories behind their campaigns.

Arguing that advertising not only sells things, but also ideas about the world, media scholar Sut Jhally offers a blistering analysis of commercial...

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant...

Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one...

From 1957 —the year in which the Soviets put the Sputnik 1 satellite into orbit— to 1969 —when American astronaut Neil Armstrong...

A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was...

A documentary on the marketing of pop culture to Teenagers.

Programming the Nation? takes an encompassing look at the history of subliminal messaging in America. According to many authorities, since the late...

The Smurfs were created in 1958 by the Belgian comic author Peyo (Pierre Culliford, 1928-1992) and they are one of Belgium's most recognized exports....

A documentary about branding, advertising and product placement that is financed and made possible by brands, advertising and product placement.

Once upon a time... consumer goods were built to last. Then, in the 1920’s, a group of businessmen realized that the longer their product...

PBS Frontline takes an in-depth look at the multibillion-dollar "persuasion industries" of advertising and public relations and how marketers have...