Not long ago, I had the pleasure and privilege of contributing to a three-volume scholarly anthology about advertising called We Are What We Sell: How Advertising Shapes American Life, and Always Has.
My essay is in Volume 3 and involves the movie E.T. (1982) and product placement there (specifically Reese's Pieces). The essay is called "This Boy's Bedroom: Product Placement, The New Masculinity, and the Rise of Geek Culture in the 1980s."
Well, the book -- edited by Danielle Sarver Coombs and my adviser at KSU, Bob Batchelor -- is now available at Amazon.com, and presumably shipping to libraries, universities and individual customers.
So if you get the chance, please check it out, and let me know what you think!
Looks like my kind of read!
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