From sitcoms and soap operas to talk shows and movies, Americans are in love with the idea of a white wedding. The happy bride and groom smile from the covers of fashion and entertainment magazines, and appear in TV commercials to sell everything from life insurance to antacid. Fascinated by this national obsession, Chrys Ingraham peers behind ...
Two professors from the University of Illinois present their observations on the persistence of the lavish wedding, even despite the recent economic downturn in the US. The authors base their discussions of the historical, social, and psychological aspects of elaborate weddings on media accounts, interviews, and their own research, and draw ...
In "The Wedding Complex", Elizabeth Freeman explores the significance of the wedding ceremony by asking what the wedding becomes when you separate it from the idea of marriage. Freeman finds that weddings - as performances, fantasies, and rituals of transformation - are sites for imagining and enacting forms of social intimacy other than ...
Lavishly illustrated with movie stills and photos of real-life ceremonies, this album brings to life the magic and the mayhem behind famous star-studded weddings, both on and off the screen. 200 photos, 100 in full color.
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