Lie on the couch and tell me what you bought

Marketing isn’t all boobs and beer. For the studious among you who long for a sober and intellectually rigorous take on the business, the long wait is over!—in New York at least, where Cinema Village is screening the four-hour-long Century of the Self for those who are patient. It chronicles the 100-year history of consumer society in Britain and the U.S. Originally a four-part BBC series, the doc, shown in two parts stateside, interlaces the history of consumerism with a chronicle of Sigmund Freud‘s family and psychoanalysis work (Freud, sans couch, is pictured here).