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This study provides some insights into the ways weddings are used to define the operation of heterosexuality in U.S. media and popular culture. Given that weddinsg have served as a symbolic tite of passage for heterosexual men and women entering marriage, one of the most important outcomes of this study is what it reveals about how heterosexuality is institutionalized.
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This is a groundbreaking study of our culture's obsession with weddings. By examining popular films, commercials, magazines, advertising, television sitcoms and even children's toys, this book shows the pervasive influence of weddings in our culture and the important role they play in maintaining the romance of heterosexuality, the myth of white supremacy and the insatiable appetite of consumer capitalism. It examines how the economics and marketing of weddings have replaced the religious and moral view of marriage.This second edition includes many new and updated features inclu
Marriage --- Weddings --- Weddings in popular culture --- Heterosexuality --- Mariage --- Noces --- Noces dans la culture populaire --- Hétérosexualité --- Hétérosexualité --- Popular culture --- Sexual orientation
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The fabulous gown, the multitiered cake, abundant flowers, attendants and guests in their finery. The white wedding does more than mark a life passage. It marries two of the most sacred tenets of American culture-romantic love and excessive consumption. For anyone who has ever wondered about the meanings behind a white dress, a diamond ring, rice, and traditions such as cake cutting, bouquet tossing, and honeymooning, this book offers an entertaining and enlightening look at the historical, social, and psychological strains that come together to make the lavish wedding the most important cultural ritual in contemporary consumer culture. With an emphasis on North American society, Cele C. Otnes and Elizabeth H. Pleck show how the elaborate wedding means far more than a mere triumph for the bridal industry. Through interviews, media accounts, and wide-ranging research and analysis, they expose the wedding's reflection-or reproduction-of fundamental aspects of popular consumer culture: its link with romantic love, its promise of magical transformation, its engendering of memories, and its legitimization of consumption as an expression of perfection. As meaningful as any prospective bride might wish, the lavish wedding emerges here as a lens that at once reveals, magnifies, and reveres some of the dearest wishes and darkest impulses at the heart of our culture.
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A queer literary and cultural studies examination of the wedding ceremony (rather than the resulting marriages) which finds it to be a space of more open possibilities than might normally be supposed.
Bruiloften in de film --- Bruiloften in de literatuur --- Bruiloften in de volkscultuur --- McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967. The Member of a Wedding --- Noces dans la culture populaire --- Noces dans la littérature --- Noces dans le cinéma --- Orientation sexuelle dans la littérature --- Seksuele gerichtheid in de literatuur --- Sexual orientation in literature --- Weddings in literature --- Weddings in motion pictures --- Weddings in popular culture --- American fiction --- -Weddings in literature. --- Same-sex marriage --- -Popular culture --- Sexual orientation in literature. --- Weddings in motion pictures. --- Weddings in popular culture. --- Weddings --- -Culture in motion pictures. --- 392.4/.5 <73> --- Motion pictures --- Marriage --- Popular culture --- Gay marriage --- Homosexual marriage --- Lesbian marriage --- Same-sex unions --- Civil unions --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- Verloving. Huwelijk. Huwelijksgebruiken. Partnerkeuze. Polyandrie. Polygamie. Monogamie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Sociology of literature --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Film --- Sociology of culture --- United States --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Faulkner, William --- Culture in motion pictures --- Same-sex marriage in literature --- Weddings in literature. --- Culture in motion pictures. --- United States of America
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