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The He-Man Effect How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood

Hardcover • 2023 • English

The He-Man Effect How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood

By Brian "Box" Brown

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About the book

Brian "Box" Brown brings history and culture to life through his comics. In his new graphic novel, he unravels how marketing that targeted children in the 1980s has shaped adults in the present. Powered by the advent of television and super-charged by the deregulation era of the 1980s, media companies and toy manufacturers joined forces to dominate the psyches of American children. But what are the consequences when a developing brain is saturated with the same kind of marketing bombardment fou...Show more

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ISBN

9781250261403

Publisher

First Second

Published year

2023

Language

English

Original title

The He-Man Effect How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood

Format

Hardcover

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