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Thus, this research suggests that some moral values can, somewhat paradoxically, increase conspicuous consumption. Finally, the studies demonstrate that the effect is moderated by the extent of social visibility during consumption.

Further, analyses show that the effect of the binding values (individualizing values) is mediated by heightened sensitivity to the social identity signaling (self-enhancing) aspects of conspicuous consumption. Then, 6 studies (N = 2903) show that the trait endorsement and the momentary salience of the different moral foundations can influence the moral judgment of conspicuous consumption as well as the propensity to engage in conspicuous consumption. First, an archival dataset shows that the prevalence of the different moral values predicts per-capita spending on luxury goods across different countries. However, the binding values (i.e., deference to authority, in-group loyalty, and purity) make people focus on the social identity signaling characteristic of conspicuous consumption, making it seem morally permissible. Utilizing the Moral Foundations Theory, we demonstrate that the individualizing values (i.e., equality and welfare) make people focus on the self-enhancing characteristics of conspicuous consumption, making it seem morally objectionable. This research sheds light on the apparent paradox by proposing that the perceived morality of conspicuous consumption is malleable, contingent upon how different moral lenses highlight the different characteristics embedded in the behavior. This discussion is thus meant to raise questions about the difficulty of producing or receiving effective critique from within a culture of consumption particularly, how can the viewer of Haynes's miniseries come to.Conspicuous consumption has often been decried as immoral by many philosophers and scholars, yet it is ubiquitous and widely embraced. But we must recognize that it is our own cultural blind-spots, our own continuing, and increasing, imbrication in a culture of consumption that has made Mildred Pierce's ideological investments hard to see. That this critique has so often been missed-both by readers of the novel and now by recent viewers of the Haynes miniseries-might suggest a flaw in the text. Share this Quote Thorstein Veblen Time has the same effect. Cain asks the reader of Mildred Pierce to confront a culture in which the real of production is giving way to self-marketing through consumption. Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. As twentieth-century capitalism moved away from notions of production to meet scarcity or need, it engendered a new American consumption in which one's sense of self and purpose is tied to what one buys. With this novel, Cain points to the alienation that results from a society he understands to be increasingly driven by a dangerous conspicuous consumption. Here, I argue that Mildred Pierce should be read as a pointed, informed social critique. But interestingly enough, reviews of the miniseries in the popular press mirror traditional critical responses to the novel, suggesting that the difficulties readers have had knowing what to make of Mildred Pierce in the past continue into the present. (2) While it has often been easy enough to dismiss Cain and to never fully understand this American novel, Haynes's return to it at this particular cultural moment pushes us to reconsider it. These mixed critical reactions to Cain's work-and the more particular difficulty readers have had coming to terms with Mildred Pierce-become again important critical questions with well-regarded filmmaker Todd Haynes drawing popular attention to the novel by adapting it, quite faithfully, into an award-winning 2011 HBO miniseries. Cain's literary fortunes have risen and fallen over the years as literary critics have, at times, seen him as merely a popular writer who capitalized on sensational topics and, at other times, understood him to be an important American novelist. In fact, the desire to fit Cain's work into the mold of his first novels was so strong that the 1945 film Mildred Pierce starring Joan Crawford was revised to better resemble them: the film's murder plot and first-person confession are not part of the novel, and this film, like the adaptations of the two earlier novels, also meets the generic requirements of film noir. Mildred Pierce, the third-person narration of a housewife who gets rich by starting her own restaurant business, seems out of keeping with the thematic and stylistic concerns of these other two works. Cain is best known as the author of crime fiction classics, The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity, both of which-with their gritty, first-person narrators-became films that helped found the genre of film noir. Cain's fourth novel, published in 1941, has created difficulties for critics and readers from the start.