ANALYSIS OF AN ADVERTISEMENT

ANALYSIS OF AN ADVERTISEMENT

Caroline Leader is a staff writer and senior columns editor for FlowTV (www.flowtv.org). In the following analysis, she scrutinizes the ways men are depicted in advertisements aimed at women.

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Reading the Genre

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