Charles Mcgovern
Biographic Data
| ID | 4910145 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Mcgovern |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcgovern |
| SIGNATURE | MCGOVERN C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
B Jenkins
The fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred Moten, B Jenkins is named after the poet's mother, who passed away in 2000. It is both an elegy and an inquiry into many of the themes that Moten has explored throughout his career: language, music, performance, improvisation, and the black radical aesthetic and political tradition. In Moten's verse, the arts, scholarship, and activism intertwine. Cadences echo from his mo…
Image Makers: Advertising, Public Relations, and the Ethos of Advocacy
In their daily operations—the relentless quest for the new story or the strategic edge in issue oriented campaigning—modern media and politics subject citizens to an unending barrage of symbols, images, information, and arguments. The bewildering maze of claims, counterclaims, and imagery propagated by thousands of institutions becomes impassable, and Americans are left to fend for themselves enlightened, confused, outraged, inspired, or frustrat…
Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century
Journal Article Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century. Ed. by Susan Strasser, Charles McGovern, and Matthias Judt. (Washington and New York: German Historical Institute and Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiv, 477 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-521-62237-9. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-521-62694-3.) Get access Jacqueline K. Dirks Jacqueline K. Dirks Reed College, Portland, Oregon Search for other works by t…
Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century
Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century
The developing history of consumption is not so much a separate field, as a prism through which many aspects of social and political life may be viewed. The essays in this collection represent a variety of approaches in Europe and America; yet their commonalities suggest recent directions in the scholarship, raising such themes as consumption and democracy, the development of a global economy, the role of the state, the centrality of consumption …
Vance Packard & American Social Criticism
Journal Article Vance Packard & American Social Criticism. By Daniel Horowitz. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. xx, 375 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2141-1.) Get access Charles McGovern Charles McGovern National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Pages 1646–1647, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
Honey, I'm Home! Sitcoms: Selling the American Dream
Soft Soap, Hard Sell: American Hygiene in an Age of Advertisement
Journal Article Soft Soap, Hard Sell: American Hygiene in an Age of Advertisement. By Vincent Vinikas. (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1992. xx + 168 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-8138-1788-9.) Get access Charles McGovern Charles McGovern National Museum of American History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1639–1640, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080300…
Honey, I'm Home! Sitcoms: Selling the American Dream
Soft Soap, Hard Sell: American Hygiene in an Age of Advertisement
Journal Article Soft Soap, Hard Sell: American Hygiene in an Age of Advertisement. By Vincent Vinikas. (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1992. xx + 168 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-8138-1788-9.) Get access Charles McGovern Charles McGovern National Museum of American History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1639–1640, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080300…
Image Makers: Advertising, Public Relations, and the Ethos of Advocacy
In their daily operations—the relentless quest for the new story or the strategic edge in issue oriented campaigning—modern media and politics subject citizens to an unending barrage of symbols, images, information, and arguments. The bewildering maze of claims, counterclaims, and imagery propagated by thousands of institutions becomes impassable, and Americans are left to fend for themselves enlightened, confused, outraged, inspired, or frustrat…
Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century
Journal Article Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century. Ed. by Susan Strasser, Charles McGovern, and Matthias Judt. (Washington and New York: German Historical Institute and Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiv, 477 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-521-62237-9. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-521-62694-3.) Get access Jacqueline K. Dirks Jacqueline K. Dirks Reed College, Portland, Oregon Search for other works by t…
Soft Soap, Hard Sell: American Hygiene in an Age of Advertisement
Journal Article Soft Soap, Hard Sell: American Hygiene in an Age of Advertisement. By Vincent Vinikas. (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1992. xx + 168 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-8138-1788-9.) Get access Charles McGovern Charles McGovern National Museum of American History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1639–1640, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080300…
Honey, I'm Home! Sitcoms: Selling the American Dream
Vance Packard & American Social Criticism
Journal Article Vance Packard & American Social Criticism. By Daniel Horowitz. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. xx, 375 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2141-1.) Get access Charles McGovern Charles McGovern National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Pages 1646–1647, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century
The developing history of consumption is not so much a separate field, as a prism through which many aspects of social and political life may be viewed. The essays in this collection represent a variety of approaches in Europe and America; yet their commonalities suggest recent directions in the scholarship, raising such themes as consumption and democracy, the development of a global economy, the role of the state, the centrality of consumption …
Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century
Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century
Journal Article Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century. Ed. by Susan Strasser, Charles McGovern, and Matthias Judt. (Washington and New York: German Historical Institute and Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiv, 477 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-521-62237-9. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-521-62694-3.) Get access Jacqueline K. Dirks Jacqueline K. Dirks Reed College, Portland, Oregon Search for other works by t…
Image Makers: Advertising, Public Relations, and the Ethos of Advocacy
In their daily operations—the relentless quest for the new story or the strategic edge in issue oriented campaigning—modern media and politics subject citizens to an unending barrage of symbols, images, information, and arguments. The bewildering maze of claims, counterclaims, and imagery propagated by thousands of institutions becomes impassable, and Americans are left to fend for themselves enlightened, confused, outraged, inspired, or frustrat…
B Jenkins
The fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred Moten, B Jenkins is named after the poet's mother, who passed away in 2000. It is both an elegy and an inquiry into many of the themes that Moten has explored throughout his career: language, music, performance, improvisation, and the black radical aesthetic and political tradition. In Moten's verse, the arts, scholarship, and activism intertwine. Cadences echo from his mo…
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