White Weddings: Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture
Publisher: Routledge | ISBN 10: 0415918405 | 1999 | PDF | 208 pages | 8.3 MB
Publisher: Routledge | ISBN 10: 0415918405 | 1999 | PDF | 208 pages | 8.3 MB
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 the veil to question the meaning of weddings in American popular culture.