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- Commercialism - Commercialism, in its original meaning, is the practices, methods, aims, and spirit of commerce or business. Today, however, it is mainly used as a critical term, referring to the tendency within capitalism to try to turn everything in life into objects and services that are sold for the purpose ...
- Commercial Alert - Commercial Alert is a non-profit civic organization that opposes advertising to children and the commercialization of culture, education and government. It works on issues such as commercialism, consumerism, product placement, ad-creep, and privacy.
- Bratpack (comics) - ... series of comic books by Rick Veitch. It was a very dark satire on superhero sidekicks, influenced partly by the fans' decision to kill off Batman's sidekick Jason Todd, but also built on other long-standing rumors and undercurrents in the history of the superhero genre, prominently commercialism, homosexuality, pedophilia, violence, and the fascist tendencies inherent in superheroes.
- Century Theatre - ... Century Theatre, originally known as the New Theatre, was a playhouse, "New York's most spectacularly unsuccessful theater" (WPA Guide). Envisioned about 1906 by Heinrich Conried, a director of the Metropolitan Opera House, its construction was an attempt to establish a great theatre at New York free of commercialism, one that, broadly speaking, would resemble the Comédie Française of Paris.
- McChurch - McChurch is a McWord used to suggest that a particular church has a strong element of entertainment, consumerism or commercialism which obscures its religious aspects. The term is sometimes used as a derogatory synonym for megachurch.