Examining 1920s' Ads, Lucky Strikes, Chevrolet, Ivory Advertisement

Please keep standard english level and the is no limit in sources so please put as much sources as you want.
Essay instruction:
Module 3 essay
Goals:
to gain insight into a current issue in advertising as social communication;
to become competent in identifying, deconstructing and critiquing advertising codes, conventions and strategies;
to practice close, textual analysis in the context of larger social issues and past or contemporary cultural trends.
Basic Requirements (see also General Requirements below)
Draw upon class readings and lectures of Module 3
Analyze a small set of ads that are somehow related
Format according to APA style
Include a bibliography or works cited page
Papers will be assessed on their originality, creativity and organization as well as on the demonstrated mastery of basic writing and research skills including: development of a thesis and clear argument, effective use of research sources and relevant advertising examples, and ability to express ideas clearly. Your professor and TA are resources, so is the Student Learning Commons http://learningcommons(dot)sfu(dot)ca. Draw upon those resources early in the writing process.
Suggestions to guide your analysis:
You should choose your ads carefully; select ads that will allow you to make substantial and relevant arguments about past or recent trends in advertising and consumer culture.
For this longer paper, 3-4 ads is probably ideal but you might choose fewer or more depending on your topic and findings. More print ads, fewer TV ads is a good rule. Keep your analysis focused on your arguments. You will not be able to say everything there is to be said about 4 or 5 ads unless you focus on the most relevant issues and develop these into a thesis.
If you chose television advertising, you will need to access to multiple viewing; working from memory of an ad seen on TV will not be adequate.
This is to be a critical analysis; you will be required to provide a reading of the ads based on argument. Do not duplicate the rhetoric of the ads; I want to hear your voice, not the ads’. Emphasize analysis rather than description. In other words, in addition to briefly describing what is in the ad, analyze how and why things are significant.
Begin the process with your observations and from those develop specific, arguments and substantial conclusions. Spend very little space describing the ads. Please include originals or photocopies of any print ads you write about or provide links to television ads. If you encounter a problem with access or references.
Make claims as to the significance of the ads and the strategies they employ. You must go well beyond such observational and obvious statements as “sex sells,” “it is eye-catching,” “it grabs your attention” or “it is designed to sell product x” (in fact, avoid such simplistic, observational and clichéd phrases at all costs). If an ad breaks with convention or uses a particular strategy to stand out in the cluttered landscape of advertising, your task is not to simply identify such strategies but rather, like all the authors we have read, to make arguments about the significance of its particular strategies.
Use the methods and ideas from the course readings and lectures. Use only those methods and ideas that are relevant to the ads you will analyze.
Some Topic ideas
If you are interested in an historical approach you might want to discuss ads from the 1920s. You could discuss the emergence of the consumption ethic that Marchand describes. You should read more of his book and try to find a set of ads that are relevant.
Analyze examples of the ensemble.
How do early ads express a new set of values and establish the foundations of a new consumer culture?
What are the core values of the consumption ethic and how are they expressed in ads from the 1920s?
How are colour and style incorporated into goods and their advertisements?
Look at the way advertising draws heavily on subcultural elements to appropriate a sense of “cool.” Examples of this process abound as ads draw upon music, sports, the past, street cultures, and on and on. Using a bit of semiotics and paying close attention to the process of appropriation should result in an excellent paper.
What does advertising and consumer culture do with subcultural forms? How might they make them safe for consumption?
What happens to politics in the process of appropriation?
How are subcultural forms made to fit within the logic of commodities and the hegemony of consumer culture?
How might terms like domestication or colonization be used to understand this process?
Advertising is fundamentally about social representation. Ads do not reflect the world but re-present it within its own logic and strategies. Observe and then argue about how the social world is represented in advertising, its people, cultures, places, things. Gender, orientation, subcultures, cultural figures, age groups, activities, relationships, the past or the future… How is something represented? How and why is it significant?
How is authenticity used in advertising?
What forms does authenticity take?
How is it coded: what social, photographic, televisual codes are used?
How does an ad or ads differentiate "authentic" products from mass production?
How is the production process represented?
How does artisanal or craft values operate in the promotion of mass produced goods?
How does authenticity reinforce the ideology of consumer culture?
Find an example of a social or cultural space that is branded and discuss its implications with reference to Moor.