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This is my teaching blog for classes of A Level Literature, Language & Literature, Communication & Culture and IB English. Please find regular course updates, useful links and extra resources below, or click on the name of your course for more information.

Sunday 23 November 2014

A2 Comms - Objects of Desire

How has Coca Cola used Christmas (and even shaped our meanings of Christmas) as a way of constructing the soft drink as a desirable cultural product?

Haddon Sundblom's early pictures of Santa Claus for Coca Cola in the 1930s were inspired by the 19th century poem Twas the Night before Christmas:


Group 1: 1995 advert
Group 2: 1997 advert
Group 3: 1998 advert
Group 4: 2014 advert

Tuesday 11 November 2014

A2 Comms - Objects of Desire

Here are the posters created in class, responding to various statements on the cultural site 'Objects of Desire':