The Wedding Spectacle Across Contemporary Media and Culture
Something Old, Something New
- 188 pages
- English
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The Wedding Spectacle Across Contemporary Media and Culture
Something Old, Something New
About this book
This book interrogates the hyper-visibility and stubborn endurance of the wedding spectacle across media and culture in the current climate.
The wide-ranging chapters consider why the symbolic power of weddings is intensifying at a time when marriage as an institution appears to be in decline â and they offer new insights into the shifting and complex gender politics of contemporary culture. The collection is a feminist project but does not straight-forwardly renounce the wedding spectacle. Rather, the diverse contributions offer close analyses of the myriad forms and practices of the wedding spectacle, from reality television and cinematic film to wedding videography and bridal boutiques. Drawing on feminist and queer theory, the chapters illuminate the paradoxes, contradictions, disappointments, cruelties and pleasures that are intimately bound up with the wedding spectacle.
Written by leading and emerging feminist scholars, the chapters range across different national and cultural contexts to explore how the gender politics of weddings are changing and adapting to a new cultural and social landscape. This in-depth analysis of the wedding spectacle will appeal to academics and researchers in the fields of gender and mass media, cultural studies, feminist studies, and intercultural communication.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abstracts
- Something old, something new: The gender politics of the wedding spectacle
- 1. The bride wore dread: Dissent and desire for the wedding spectacle in Sex and the City, from the box to the big screen
- 2. Making a spectacle of yourself: British-Asian wedding videography as alternative archives of belonging
- 3. Weddings, anti-heroines, and postfeminist cynicism
- 4. Say Yes to the Dress and the affective rhythms of repetition and reflection
- 5. Big Fat Royal Weddings: Kate the âcommonerâ princess and classed moral economies
- 6. âTime for all of us to walk into the sunshine togetherâ: Glee, the same-sex wedding spectacle and the imagining of queer futures
- 7. Tailored for marriage, ready for the stage: Framing Turkeyâs family regime on âThe Marriage Showâ
- 8. Keeping it classy: Wedding dresses and distinction
- 9. Tailor-made suits and âcrappy drag queensâ: Constructing gay and lesbian weddings on British reality TV
- 10. Spectacular virgins: Purity porn and the making uncanny of the white wedding
- 11. On blushing brides and the compulsory logics of hetero-femininity: The glow in transatlantic media culture
- Index