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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press
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New York, NY : [2013] |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009810659606719 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Revision of the author's doctoral thesis. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (255 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814764763 |
| Access: | Open access |
