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| #1806076 in eBooks | 2009-06-30 | 2009-06-30 | File type: PDF||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A SCHOLARLY STUDY OF THE VISUAL AND MATERIAL CULTURE OF CHRISTMAS|By Steven H Propp|Karal Ann Marling is professor Art History at the University of Minnesota, and the author of books such as As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s, Designing Disney's Theme Parks: The Architecture of Reassurance, George Washington Slept Here: Colonial Revivals and America|From Publishers Weekly|Imaginatively researched and strewn with surprising details, this engaging cultural history traces the rise of the consumerism that has become as integral to the celebration of Christmas in the United States as tinsel is to tree trimming.
It wouldn't be Christmas without the "things." How they came to mean so much, and to play such a prominent role in America's central holiday, is the tale told in this delightful and edifying book. In a style characteristically engaging and erudite, Karal Ann Marling, one of our most trenchant observers of American culture, describes the outsize spectacle that Christmas has become.
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