Sean Nixon

Sean Nixon is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. For the past twenty five years he has researched on the links between consumer markets, cultural representation and social change, publishing four books. These include Hard Looks: Masculinities, Spectatorship and Contemporary Consumption (UCL Press, 1996) and Advertising Cultures: Gender, Commerce, Creativity (Sage, 2003). His most recent publication is Hard Sell: Advertising, Affluence and Trans-Atlantic Relations, circa 1951-1969 (MUP Press, 2013).