1. Sex and Gender in Advertising
... catch is that a dark, digitally-placed line exists down the center of her nose; on one side is the unappealing "before" eye-color (dark and brown and unsexy), especially in comparison to the "after" eye-color (blue and bright and vastly more attractive) found on the other side of that dark line. "You change your style. Why ... not your eye color?" reads right off the side of this demonstration. The most apparent symbol on display in this ad is the all-too familiar "before and after" technique ... ." The ad is simple but concise: a sexy, blonde, blue-eyed Paris Hilton, perfume in hand, ...
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- Approx Pages: 9
- Grade Level: Undergraduate