1,519
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research Article

Selling Santa: How Miracle on 34th Street Stole (And Rebranded) Christmas

References

  • Belk, R. W., and W. Bryce. 1993. “Christmas Shopping Scenes: From Modern Miracle to Postmodern Mall.” International Journal of Research in Marketing 10 (3): 277–296. https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-8116(93)90011-M.
  • Boorstin, D. J. 1973. The Americans: The Democratic Experience. New York: Random House. http://archive.org/details/americansdemocr00boor.
  • Connelly, M. 2000. “Santa Claus: The Movie.” In Christmas at the Movies: Images of Christmas in American, British and European Cinema, edited by M. Connelly, Cinema and Society Series. 115–134. London: I.B. Tauris Publishers .
  • Ferry, J. W. 1960. A History of the Department Store. New York: Macmillan. http://archive.org/details/historyofdepartm00ferr.
  • Forbes, B. D. 2007. Christmas: A Candid History. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Golby, J. M., and A. W. Purdue. 1986. The Making of the Modern Christmas. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
  • Horsley, R. 2001. “Christmas: The Religion of Consumer Capitalism.” In Christmas Unwrapped: Consumerism, Christ, and Culture, edited by R. Horsley and J. Tracy, 165–187. Pittsburgh, PA: Trinity Press International.
  • Marling, K. A. 2001. Merry Christmas!: Celebrating America’s Greatest Holiday. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • McKay, G. 2008. “Consumption, Coca-Colonisation, Cultural Resistance – and Santa Claus.” In Christmas, Ideology and Popular Culture, edited by S. Whiteley, 50–68, Edinburgh University Press.
  • Miracle on 34th Street Pressbook. 1947. 20th Century Fox. BFI Reuben Library.
  • Myers, M. A. 2001. “Christmas on Celluloid: Hollywood Helps Construct the American Christmas.” In Christmas Unwrapped: Consumerism, Christ, and Culture, edited by R. Horsley and J. Tracy, 39–54. Pittsburgh, PA: Trinity Press International.
  • Okleshen, C., S. Menzel Baker, and R. Mittelstaedt. 2011. “Santa Claus Does More Than Deliver Toys: Advertising’s Commercialization of the Collective Memory of Americans.” Consumption Markets & Culture 4 (3): 207–210. https://doi.org/10.1080/10253866.2000.9670357.
  • Palmer, A. 2015. The Santa Claus Man: The Rise and Fall of a Jazz Age Con Man and the Invention of Christmas in New York. Guilford, CT: Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Resseguie, H. E. 1965. “Alexander Turney Stewart and the Development of the Department Store, 1823-1876.” Business History Review 39 (3): 301–322. https://doi.org/10.2307/3112143.
  • Restad, P. L. 1995. Christmas in America: A History. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Schmidt, L. E. 1995. Consumer Rites: The Buying & Selling of American Holidays. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press.
  • Seaton, G. 1947. Miracle on 34th Street. Los Angeles: 20th. dir. Century Fox.
  • Stronach, I., and A. Hodkinson. 2011. “Towards a Theory of Santa: Or, the Ghost of Christmas Present.’.” Anthropology Today 27 (6): 15–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8322.2011.00838.x.
  • Waits, W. B. 1993. The Modern Christmas in America: A Cultural History of Gift Giving. New York City: New York University Press.