TY - BOOK AU - Cross,Gary S. AU - Proctor,Robert N. TI - Packaged pleasures: how technology & marketing revolutionized desire SN - 9780226121277 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - T 173.8 C951p 2014 U1 - 658.8/23019 PY - 2014/// CY - Chicago, London PB - The University of Chicago Press KW - Packaging KW - Technological innovations KW - Psychological aspects KW - Social aspects KW - Empaques KW - Innovaciones tecnológicas KW - Marketing KW - Mercadeo KW - Consumer behavior KW - Comportamiento del consumidor KW - Aspectos sociales N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The carrot and the candy bar -- Containing civilization, preserving the ephemeral, going tubular -- The cigarette story -- Superfoods and the engineered origins of the modern sweet tooth -- Portable packets of sound: the birth of the phonograph and record -- Packaging sight: projections, snapshots, and motion pictures -- Packaging fantasy: the amusement park as mechanized circus, electric theater, and commercialized spectacle -- Pleasure on speed and the calibrated life: fast forwarding through the last century -- Red raspberries all the time? N2 - "In Packaged Pleasures, Gary S. Cross and Robert N. Proctor delve into an uncharted chapter of American history, shedding new light on the origins of modern consumer culture and how technologies have transformed human sensory experience"--Provided by publisher ER -