Advertising

Advertising', writes Rosalind Gill, 'simultaneously uses, incorporates, revises, attacks and depoliticizes feminist themes and ideas' (2007, 90). How does Urban Decay's 2019 ad 'Pretty Different and the Global UD Citizens' (1:00) engage with such themes and ideas? Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atXeCbcwWaw&feature=youtu.be
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