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by Gillian Polack

Sometimes the best way to understand how food ads operate as part of our foodways is to see them from further away. Not being able to understand the ad fully gives the viewer a bit more distance and makes it easier to analyse. Sometimes the distance is time (as we’ve seen) and sometimes it’s language.

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Posted in General, other primary sources on July 30th, 2007

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