The wedding spectacle across contemporary media and culture : something old, something new / edited by Jilly Boyce Kay, Melanie Kennedy and Helen Wood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kay, Jilly Boyce, editor.

Kennedy, Melanie, editor.

Wood, Helen, 1972- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Weddings in popular culture.

Weddings.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

xix, 188 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Contents:

1 The bride wore dread: Dissent and desire for the wedding spectacle in Sex and the City, from the box to the big screen p. 21 / Deborah Jermyn

2 Making a spectacle of yourself: British-Asian wedding videography as alternative archives of belonging p. 37 / Jilly Boyce Kay and Kajal Nisha Patel

3 Weddings, anti-heroines, and postfeminist cynicism p. 53 / Suzanne Leonard

4 Say Yes to the Dress and the affective rhythms of repetition and reflection p. 67 / Natasha Whiteman and Helen Wood

5 Big Fat Royal Weddings: Kate the "commoner" princess and classed moral economies p. 81 / Laura Clancy

6 "Time for all of us to walk into the sunshine together": Glee, the same-sex wedding spectacle and the imagining of queer futures p. 95 / Kate McNicholas Smith

7 Tailored for marriage, ready for the stage: Framing Turkey's family regime on "The Marriage Show" p. 109 / Feyza Akinerdem

8 Keeping it classy: Wedding dresses and distinction p. 123 / Jenny Thatcher

9 Tailor-made suits and "crappy drag queens": Constructing gay and lesbian weddings on British reality TV p. 141 / Michael Lovelock

10 Spectacular virgins: Purity pom and the making uncanny of the white wedding p. 155 / Melanie Kennedy

11 On blushing brides and the compulsory logics of hetero-femininity: The glow in transatlantic media culture p. 171 / Brenda R. Weber.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138586215

1138586218

9781138586239

1138586234

OCLC:

1129712840