7/25/11

SLU Prof Papson Co-Authors Book Examining Corporate Advertising

CANTON - A new book co-authored by a St. Lawrence University professor analyzes the way that corporate television advertising over the past 15 years has shaped our collective view of a world in transition.

Landscapes of Capital: Representing Time, Space, and Globalization in Corporate Advertising, by St. Lawrence Professor of Film and Representation Studies Stephen Papson and Lewis & Clark College Professor of Sociology Robert Goldman has just been published by Polity Press.

Its publishers state, "Every era has its dominant representations. Just as landscape painters of previous centuries captured and expressed new modes of perceiving history, corporate advertisers now devise the imagined landscapes of global capitalism."

In Landscapes of Capital, Papson and Goldman "demonstrate how capital represents itself at a moment of critical historical transition - the passage into high-tech globalization and the crises associated with it."

A member of the St. Lawrence faculty since 1976, Papson is a graduate of Seton Hall University and earned his master's degree from the New School for Social Research and the Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky. He and Goldman also co-authored the 1999 book Nike Culture: The Sign Of The Swoosh and the 1998 volume Sign Wars: The Cluttered Landscape of Advertising.

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