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    Cinderella Dreams : The Allure of the Lavish Wedding (2003)
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780520937505
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (401 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Life Passages v.2
    DDC: 395.22
    Abstract: The fabulous gown, the multitiered cake, abundant flowers, attendants and guests in their finery. The white wedding does more than mark a life passage. It marries two of the most sacred tenets of American culture-romantic love and excessive consumption. For anyone who has ever wondered about the meanings behind a white dress, a diamond ring, rice, and traditions such as cake cutting, bouquet tossing, and honeymooning, this book offers an entertaining and enlightening look at the historical, social, and psychological strains that come together to make the lavish wedding the most important cultural ritual in contemporary consumer culture. With an emphasis on North American society, Cele C. Otnes and Elizabeth H. Pleck show how the elaborate wedding means far more than a mere triumph for the bridal industry. Through interviews, media accounts, and wide-ranging research and analysis, they expose the wedding's reflection-or reproduction-of fundamental aspects of popular consumer culture: its link with romantic love, its promise of magical transformation, its engendering of memories, and its legitimization of consumption as an expression of perfection. As meaningful as any prospective bride might wish, the lavish wedding emerges here as a lens that at once reveals, magnifies, and reveres some of the dearest wishes and darkest impulses at the heart of our culture.
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    Cinderella dreams : the allure of the lavish wedding (2003)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520937505 , 0520937503 , 1417508353 , 9781417508358
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xv, 384 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Life passages
    Parallel Title: Print version Cinderella dreams
    DDC: 395.22
    Keywords: Weddings in popular culture ; Weddings ; Consumer behavior ; Weddings ; Weddings in popular culture ; Consumer behavior ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; Consumer behavior ; Weddings in popular culture ; Weddings ; Bruiloft ; Populaire cultuur ; Consumentengedrag ; REFERENCE ; Weddings ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A lavish wedding marries two of the most sacred tenets of American culture - romantic love and excessive consumption. This work offers a look at the historical, social and psychological strains that come together to make it the most important cultural ritual in contemporary consumer culture
    Description / Table of Contents: Romance, magic, memory, and perfectionThe rise of the lavish wedding -- The engagement complex -- The rituals of wedding shopping -- The wedding weekend -- From the cabin to Cancun -- Hollywood hosts a wedding -- The lavish wedding goes global -- Variations on a theme -- Luxury, lavishness, and love.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-363) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    Contemporary consumption rituals : a research anthology (2004)
    Mahwah, N.J : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
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    ISBN: 0805842047
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxv, 332 p) , ill , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Marketing and consumer psychology series
    Parallel Title: Print version Contemporary Consumption Rituals : A Research Anthology
    DDC: 390
    Keywords: Consumption (Economics) Case studies
    Abstract: This work offers a multifaceted exploration of new rituals, such as Celebrating Kwanzaa and of the ways entrenched rituals, such as Mardi Gras, gift giving, and weddings have changed. Moreover, it examines the influence of both cultures and subcultures
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Foreword; Contributor Biographies; Preface; Part I: Consumer Rituals and the Media; 1 Drinking Rituals Among the Heaviest Drinkers: College Student Binge Drinkers and Alcoholics; 2 Consuming Ritual: A&E's Sacred Rites and Rituals; Part II: Holidays and Consumption; 3 Ceremonial Disrobement and Moral Choice: Consumption Rituals at Mardi Gras; 4 Kwanzaa: The Making of a Black Nationalist Tradition, 1966-1990; 5 The Evolution, Transformation, and Demise of a Ritual: The Case of May Day
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 Consumer Fairy Tales of the Perfect Christmas: Villains and Other Dramatis PersonaePart III: Wedding Rituals Across Cultures; 7 Love Without Borders: An Examination of Cross-Cultural Wedding Rituals; 8 Dowry: A Cherished Possession or an Old-Fashioned Tradition in a Modernizing Society?; Part IV: Gift Exchange; 9 Gift Exchange Rituals in the Workplace: A Social Roles Interpretation; 10 In the Spotlight: The Drama of Gift Reception; 11 Ritual Desire and Ritual Development: An Examination of Family Heirlooms in Contemporary North American Households; Part V: Pushing the Boundary of Ritual
    Description / Table of Contents: 12 Moving on to Something Else: The Social Relations of Women During Separation13 Sacred Iconography in Secular Space: Altars, Alters, and Alterity at the Burning Man Project; Part VI: Afterword; 14 Interesting Stuff: A Commentary on Contemporary Consumption Rituals; Author Index; Subject Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    Cinderella dreams : the allure of the lavish wedding (2003)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 0520240081 , 0520236610
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvi, 384 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Life passages 2
    Series Statement: Life Passages Ser v.2
    Parallel Title: Print version Cinderella Dreams : The Allure of the Lavish Wedding
    DDC: 395.2/2
    Keywords: Consumer behavior ; Weddings ; Weddings in popular culture ; Consumer behavior ; Weddings in popular culture ; Weddings ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The fabulous gown, the multitiered cake, abundant flowers, attendants and guests in their finery. The white wedding does more than mark a life passage. It marries two of the most sacred tenets of American culture-romantic love and excessive consumption. For anyone who has ever wondered about the meanings behind a white dress, a diamond ring, rice, and traditions such as cake cutting, bouquet tossing, and honeymooning, this book offers an entertaining and enlightening look at the historical, social, and psychological strains that come together to make the lavish wedding the most important cultu
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Romance, Magic, Memory, and Perfection; 2. The Rise of the Lavish Wedding; 3. The Engagement Complex; 4. The Rituals of Wedding Shopping; 5. The Wedding Weekend; 6. From the Cabin to Cancún; 7. Hollywood Hosts a Wedding; 8. The Lavish Wedding Goes Global; 9. Variations on a Theme; 10. Luxury, Lavishness, and Love; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-363) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    Cinderella dreams : the allure of the lavish wedding (2003)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 0520236610 , 0520240081 , 0520937503 , 1282359789 , 1417508353 , 1597345393 , 9780520236615 , 9780520240087 , 9780520937505 , 9781282359789 , 9781417508358 , 9781597345392
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 384 p.)
    Series Statement: Life passages
    DDC: 395.2/2
    Keywords: REFERENCE / Weddings ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; Consumer behavior ; Popular culture ; Weddings ; Noces ; Noces dans la culture populaire ; Consommateurs / Comportement ; Bruiloft ; Populaire cultuur ; Consumentengedrag ; Weddings ; Weddings in popular culture ; Consumer behavior ; Hochzeit ; Hochzeit
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-363) and index , Romance, magic, memory, and perfection -- The rise of the lavish wedding -- The engagement complex -- The rituals of wedding shopping -- The wedding weekend -- From the cabin to Cancun -- Hollywood hosts a wedding -- The lavish wedding goes global -- Variations on a theme -- Luxury, lavishness, and love , A lavish wedding marries two of the most sacred tenets of American culture - romantic love and excessive consumption. This work offers a look at the historical, social and psychological strains that come together to make it the most important cultural ritual in contemporary consumer culture
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