Consuming the Romantic Utopia Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Name: Consuming the Romantic Utopia Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
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ISBN: 9780520205710

ISBN-10: 0520205715

ISBN-13: 9780520205710

Edition: 1997

Authors: Eva Illouz

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To what extent are our most romantic moments determined by the portrayal of love in film and on TV? Is a walk on a moonlit beach a moment of perfect romance or simply a simulation of the familiar ideal seen again and again on billboards and movie screens? In her unique study of American love in the twentieth century, Eva Illouz unravels the mass of images that define our ideas of love and romance, revealing that the experience of "true" love is deeply embedded in the experience of consumer capitalism. Illouz studies how individual conceptions of love overlap with the world of clicheacute;s and images she calls the "Romantic Utopia." This utopia lives in the collective imagination of the…

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/29/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 388
Size: 6.14" wide x 8.98" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.232



Acknowledgments


Introduction to the Sociology of Love



Constructing the Romantic Utopia



Trouble in Utopia



From the Romantic Utopia to the American Dream



An All-Consuming Love



Real Fictions and Fictional Realities



Reason within Passion



The Reasons for Passion



The Class of Love


Conclusion: A Happy Ending?



A Few Words about Methods



Questionnaire



Images of Romance


Notes


References


Index