White Weddings
Subtitle: Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 1, 2007
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780415951944
First sentence: Driving from Ithaca to Albany one spring night in 1992 I heard a report on National Public Radio's All Things Considered about the fact that thirteen TV shows were ending their season with weddings.
Description: "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."--Publisher's website.