As long as we both shall love the white wedding in postwar America

In As Long as We Both Shall Love, Karen M. Dunak provides a nuanced history of the American wedding and its celebrants. Blending an analysis of film, fiction, advertising, and prescriptive literature with personal views from letters, diaries, essays, and oral histories, Dunak demonstrates the ways i...

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Autor principal: Dunak, Karen M. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press c2013.
New York, NY : [2013]
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Sumario:In As Long as We Both Shall Love, Karen M. Dunak provides a nuanced history of the American wedding and its celebrants. Blending an analysis of film, fiction, advertising, and prescriptive literature with personal views from letters, diaries, essays, and oral histories, Dunak demonstrates the ways in which the modern wedding epitomizes a diverse and consumerist culture and aims to reveal an ongoing debate about the power of peer culture, media, and the marketplace in America.
Notas:Revision of the author's doctoral thesis.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (255 p.)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780814764763
Acceso:Open access