A Bibliography for 'Not Just for Christmas'

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Christmas in consumer studies

Basker, Emek, ‘‘Twas Four Weeks Before Christmas: Retail Sales and the Length of the Christmas Shopping Season’, Economics Letters 89:3 (2005), pp. 317-22.

Clarke, Peter, ‘Christmas Gift Giving Involvement’, Journal of Consumer Marketing 23 (2006), pp. 283-91.

Horsley, R. and Tracy, J. (eds.), Christmas Unwrapped: Consumerism, Christ, and Culture (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2001).

Pollay, Richard W., ‘It’s the Thought that Counts: A Case Study in Xmas Excesses’, Advances in Consumer Research 14:1 (1987), pp. 140-43.

Christmas in history and tradition

Connelly, M., Christmas: A Social History (London: I. B. Tauris, 1999).

Davis, R., ‘Enchantments: Childhood and the Experience of Christmas’ (Unpublished paper, 2007).
Hutton, R., The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996).

Lacher, K. T., et. al., ‘The Spirit of Christmas: An Ethnographic Investigation of the Christmas Ritual’ Southwestern Marketing Association (1995), http://www.sbaer.uca.edu/research/swma/1995/pdf/11.pdf

McKechnie, S. and Tynan, C., 'Social Meanings in Christmas Consumption: An Exploratory Study of UK Celebrants' Consumption Rituals', Journal of Consumer Behaviour 5:2 (2006), pp. 130-44.

Miller, D. (ed.), Unwrapping Christmas (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology: Cultural Forms; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993).

Christmas and in Theology and religious studies

Roll, Susan K., Toward the Origins of Christmas (Kampen: Kok Pharos Publishing, 1995).

Christmas in art, film, media and popular culture studies

Connelly, M. (ed.), Christmas at the Movies: Images of Christmas in American, British and European Cinema (Cinema and Society Series; London: I. B. Tauris, 2000).

Whiteley, Sheila (ed.), Christmas, Ideology and Popular Culture (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2008).

General Interest books on Christmas

Slee, Nicola & R. Miles, Doing December Differently: An Alternative Christmas Handbook (Glasgow: Wild Goose Publications, 2006).