{"product_id":"the-wedding-spectacle-across-contemporary-media-and-culture-9781138586239","title":"The Wedding Spectacle Across Contemporary Media","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book interrogates the hyper-visibility and stubborn endurance of the wedding spectacle across media and culture in the current climate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe wide-ranging chapters consider why the symbolic power of weddings is intensifying at a time when marriage as an institution appears to be in decline  and they offer new insights into the shifting and complex gender politics of contemporary culture. The collection is a feminist project but does not straight-forwardly renounce the wedding spectacle. Rather, the diverse contributions offer close analyses of the myriad forms and practices of the wedding spectacle, from reality television and cinematic film to wedding videography and bridal boutiques. Drawing on feminist and queer theory, the chapters illuminate the paradoxes, contradictions, disappointments, cruelties and pleasures that are intimately bound up with the wedding spectacle. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by leading and emerging feminist scholars, the chapters range across different national\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis fascinating collection significantly updates and expands our understanding of the popular cultures of weddings. Analyzing the wedding as a premiere site of spectacle, aspiration and the staging of social intimacy, it also unpacks its digitalization, globalization and complex affects and calls our attention to what we might think of as the growing distance between weddings and marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDiane Negra, Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture, University College Dublin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrounded in a critique of the class hierarchies and rampant inequalities of racialised heteropatriarchy, this book resists a straightforward dismissal of the mediated wedding spectacle. Instead, the plural feminist perspectives offer (com)passionate explorations of sites of resistance and ambivalence. They identify themes of identity, power, desire, consent, affect, camp, generation, while interrogating the mediated production of intimacies, connectivities and conflicts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlison Winch, Lecturer in Media Studies, University of East Anglia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbstracts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSomething Old, Something New: The Gender Politics of the Wedding Spectacle\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJilly Boyce Kay, Melanie Kennedy and Helen Wood\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Bride Wore Dread: Dissent and Desire for the Wedding Spectacle in \u003ci\u003eSex and the City\u003c\/i\u003e, from the Box to the Big-screen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeborah Jermyn\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaking a Spectacle of Yourself: British-Asian Wedding Videography as Alternative Archives of Belonging\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eJilly Boyce Kay and Kajal Nisha Patel\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWeddings, Anti-Heroines, and Postfeminist Cynicism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuzanne Leonard\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSay Yes to the Dress and the Affective Rhythms of Repetition and Reflection\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eNatasha Whiteman and Helen Wood\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBig Fat Royal Weddings: Kate the \"Commoner\" Princess and Classed Moral Economies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura Clancy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Time for all of us to Walk into the Sunshine Together\": \u003ci\u003eGlee\u003c\/i\u003e, Same-sex Wedding Spectacle and the Imagining of Queer Futures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eKate McNicholas Smith\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTailored for Marriage, Ready for the Stage: Frames of the Family Regime on \"The Marriage Show\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeyza Akınerdem\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKeeping it Classy: Wedding Dresses and Distinctions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eJenny Thatcher\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTailor-made Suits and \"Crappy Drag Queens\": Constructing Gay and Lesbian Weddings in Reality TV\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Lovelock\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpectacular Virgins: Purity Porn and the Making Uncanny of the White Wedding \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eMelanie Kennedy \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn Blushing Brides and the Compulsory Logics of Hetero-Femininity: The Glow in Transatlantic Media Culture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrenda R. 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