Deadly Persuasion

Kilbourne, Jean. Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight The Addictive Power of Advertising. New York: The Free Press, 1999.

The reason why I picked Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising is because it looked very interesting compared to the other two books I had also chosen. One book had to deal with TV living and the other book had to deal with detecting lies and deceit but when I ran across a book that was mainly focused on women and advertising, I was completely for it. I thought out of all the books that I have chosen I would be more interested in how the author, Jean Kilbourne approached different aspects of women and advertising. I also chose this book, because I felt like I was not influenced by advertisements but then after reading a few chapters of the book, I realized that advertising affects a lot of people and people do things in life because of what they see on television, billboards, movies, etc. I also thought it was interesting to learn how advertising truly affects women when it comes to cars, food, clothing, etc. It"s just interesting to see the different advertisements that Jean Kilbourne presents throughout the book and see the different meanings to the advertisements and see why people react the way that they do to the different ads.
Jean Kilbourne has a lot of different publications. One of her publications is a book called Can"t Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel. Besides publishing books, Jean Kilbourne also has a series of films and videos. Her first film, Killing Us Softly: Advertising"s Image of Women and the remakes Still Killing Us Softly and Killing Us Softly 3 are amongst some of the most popular educational films of all times. Some of her other videos include: Spin the Bottle: Sex, Lies and Alcohol, Slim Hopes: Advertising and the Obsession with Thinness and Pack of Lies: The Advertising of Tobacco. She has also been the host of several videos...