Profiting from war : Bovril advertising during World War II

Loxham, Angela (2016) Profiting from war : Bovril advertising during World War II. Journal of Macromarketing, 36 (2). pp. 198-214. ISSN 0276-1467

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Abstract

This article addresses the lack of research on commercial advertising during wartime. It takes as its focus Bovril ads during World War II, to argue that commercial advertising, rather than diverging from state propaganda consistently drew upon wider representations of war in order to integrate into a society increasingly dominated by the image. To examine this, all of the Bovril ads from World War II appearing in the Times, Daily Express and Daily Mirror are compared in both quantitative and qualitative analyses, which helps to avoid the “cherry picking” problems of relying on a qualitative analysis alone. The main contention is that ads are socially situated media and, as such, cannot strongly divert from other messages being circulated within society because their reception depends upon their message creating an instant identification with the reader. In the 1940s this was especially true because society was confronted with an unprecedented mass of state propaganda.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Journal of Macromarketing
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1400/1406
Subjects:
?? advertising historywomenwarfood marketingrationingpropagandaconsumer literacymoralemacromarketingmarketing ??
ID Code:
82319
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Deposited On:
20 Oct 2016 13:14
Refereed?:
Yes
Published?:
Published
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