ipl-logo

1950's Consumer Culture

265 Words2 Pages
Following the 1950’s was a massive explosion in consumer culture led in part by the advertisement industry. “ Mass Society had arrived… techniques of sales promotion greatly abetted by the explosion of advertisements and public relations, increasingly resorted to ‘hype’ to push a cornucopia of new products and patterns” (Patterson, 345). Many different types of industries grew under the modern consumer culture boom, but some of the most poignant examples are tobacco and alcohol. The so-called sin industries had a massive hold on the public during the fifties and sixties; some of their success can be accredited to a flood of ads on every paper, billboard, and television show. The ads of the 1950’s are known for being quite strange and striking
Open Document