Christmas: the monstrous turkey on the horizon, the holiday to end all holidays. Whatever your view on the matter, it seems like it’s here to stay. Maybe this invincibility is why we find Christmas so easy to swing at – we’ll never be rid of it, so we can rage against the gift-wrapped punching bag…
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Iceland Christmas advert: too political or too pertinent?
Iceland has launched a Christmas advert campaign to raise awareness for deforestation. The narration is by Emma Thompson, in collaboration with Greenpeace. However Clearcast, the NGO that decides which ads to approve, banned it because it was “too political”, according to the 2003 Communications Act. It shows an animation of an orangutan in a girl’s…
Arts
Another year, another advert
With the arrival of the much awaited Christmas advert season, along comes the familiar slew of criticism too. We all know that the Christmas adverts’ genius has a bottom line: profit. Yet, just because they are being created to sell a brand, is it right to suggest these adverts are not art? I’d argue no….
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A Blizzard of Christmas Adverts
Melissa Haggar on the littering of Christmas adverts strewn across the season’s TV schedule.
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The sex factor: pornography in fashion
Adverts and pornography have become so similar we are no longer consumers of fashion, but of sexual desire, writes Hatty Farnham.