TABLE OF CONTENTS

  

"In our factory, we make lipstick; in our advertising, we sell hope." 
                                                                                                                - Charles Revson

Introduction

Teaching Standards

Critical Thinking &
Media Literacy

Deconstructing A
Print Ad

Words & Images

Celebrity Endorsements

Facts & Figures

Body Image

Ingredients: What's In this stuff?

Magazines:
Content Analysis

Sexual Images

Retouching, Airbrushing, &
Body chopping

Music/Cosmetics 
Collaboration

Glossary

Links to related sites

Recommended texts

  

 
 
 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 
 

Cosmetic Advertising:
Deconstructing
The Real Messages
in the media

©2004 
Frank Baker, Kara Clayton
media educators

(NOTE: portions of this page are under construction)


actress Jamie Lee Curtis
goes without makeup

Recommended Texts
(each of these includes sections on cosmetic advertising)

Adcult USA  James Twitchell

Are They Selling Her Lips?  Advertising & Identity
Carol Moog

Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel
Jean Kilbourne

Marketing Madness, A Survival Guide for A Consumer Society
Michael F. Jacobson, Laurie Ann Mazur

Provocateur, Images of Women & Minorities in Advertising
Anthony J. Cortese

Recommended Videos

Killing Us Softly 3, Jean Kilbourne, produced by Media Ed Foundation


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