Consumer Culture and the Media: Magazines in the Public Eye

by Mehita Iqani

How did consumer culture become synonymous with westernised societies? Iqani argues that it is the way it is promoted by media texts. She provides a detailed analysis of publicly displayed consumer magazine covers and engages with big questions about the public, power and identity in mediated consumer culture.

200 pages, Hardcover

First published September 18, 2012