Using ideas from “Monster Culture”, “Masters of Desire”, and Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture , analyze a static visual advertisement in order to make an insightful argument about the messages of the advertisement and the methods by which it conveys its messages. You must also consider how your argument complicates or extends ideas from “Monster Culture”, “Masters of Desire”, or Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture . (5 – 7 pages) • Choose an advertisement that you have found that relates to the theme of monstrosity. (below I have attached the mulberry ad for you to use, the monster looks like the monster from ″where the wild things are″ book/movie, you can incorporate that fact) • Analyze the advertisement’s visual elements through your own perspective. What is its central message? How does it convey that message to the viewer?
