Examines the "persuasion industries" of advertising and public relations. Shows how marketers have developed new ways of integrating their message into the fabric of our lives. Explores how the culture of marketing has come to shape the way Americans understand the world and themselves and how the techniques of the persuasion industries have migrated to politics.

A lowly marketing exec enlists the help of a scarily beautiful, brainy co-worker to save his million-dollar idea from corporate espionage in this scathingly funny send-up of sex, celebrity, and greed.

Jin Hyun-Pil runs 'One Network Inc.,' a company with an extensive network covering Korea. The chief of the Intellectual Crime Investigation team, Kim Jae-Myung, suspects One Network's involvement in a fraud case of unprecedented scale. Kim tracks down the company's IT architect and brain, Park Jang-gun, and attempts to persuade him to hand over Jin's secret ledger in exchange for a plea bargain. Feeling the police closing in on him, Jin moves operations...

Explores how the perennial teen quest for identity and connection has migrated to social media, and exposes the game of cat-and-mouse that corporations are playing with these young consumers. Here is a powerful examination of the evolving and complicated relationship between teens and the companies that are increasingly working to target them. A follow-up to FRONTLINE's 2001 documentary The merchants of cool.

Explores the career of produce entrepreneur Frieda Caplan and the company she built around the marketing of fruit.

Presents a compelling and accessible argument about consumerism and its impact on the earth's future. Extensively illustrated with graphics and examples from commercial imagery.

Investigates the pharmaceutical industry's role in the epidemic of prescription drug addiction, focusing on the case of the filmmaker Chris Bell's brother Mike, a professional wrestler whose death was related to drugs he had been prescribed.

"What the health is a surprising, and at times hilarious, investigative documentary that will be an eye-opener for everyone concerned about our nation's health and how big business influences it"--Container.

Yoram Globus and the late Menahem Golan are two movie-obsessed immigrant cousins who became Hollywood's ultimate gate-crashers. With hair-trigger randomness, these cousins of chaos churned out a breathtaking cavalcade of hits and misses, made movies out of posters, released a sequel before the original film, botched plots, bounced checks and burned careers - and in so doing, changed the way movies were made and marketed. Charts the rise and fall...