Consumption, Coca-colonisation, cultural resistance--and Santa Claus

Mckay, GA

Abstract

In what ways has the iconography and practice of Christmas been shaped, understood and consumed as an American experience? This chapter explores explains and questions the ideological valence of Christmas in part as an American socio-economic and cultural (export) practice. It looks at issues of consumption, representation of Christmas in print media, and at aspects of resistance to that festival culture.

Citation

Mckay, G. (2008). Consumption, Coca-colonisation, cultural resistance--and Santa Claus. In S. Whiteley (Ed.), Christmas, Ideology and Popular Culture (50-70). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2008
• Deposit Date: Oct 14, 2009
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 14, 2009
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Pages: 50-70
• Book Title: Christmas, Ideology and Popular Culture
• ISBN: 9780748628087
• Keywords: Christmas, Coca plant, North America, culture, tradition, iconography, Santa Claus
• Publisher URL: http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748628087
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