White Weddings
eBook - ePub

White Weddings

Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

White Weddings

Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture

About this book

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 including: full coverage of the wedding industrial complex; gay marriage and its relationship to white weddings and heterosexuality and demographics shifts as to who is marrying whom and why, nationally and internationally.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Chapter One Lifting the Veil
  9. Chapter Two The Wedding-Industrial Complex
  10. Chapter Three Romancing the Clone: The White Wedding
  11. Chapter Four McBride Meets McDreamy: Television Weddings, the Internet, and Popular Film
  12. Chapter Five And They Lived Happily Ever After …
  13. Epilogue
  14. Appendix
  15. Endnotes
  16. References
  17. Photo Permissions
  18. Index