Framing the Bride Globalizing Beauty and Romance in Taiwan's Bridal Industry

Name: Framing the Bride Globalizing Beauty and Romance in Taiwan's Bridal Industry
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ISBN: 9780520238336

ISBN-10: 0520238338

ISBN-13: 9780520238336

Edition: 2003

Authors: Bonnie Adrian

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With a wedding impending, the Taiwanese bride-to-be turns to bridal photographers, makeup artists, and hair stylists to transform her image beyond recognition. They give her fairer skin, eyes like a Western baby doll, and gowns inspired by sources from Victorian England to MTV. An absorbing consideration of contemporary bridal practices in Taiwan,Framing the Brideshows how the lavish photographs represent more than mere conspicuous consumption. They are artifacts infused with cultural meaning and emotional significance, products of the gender- and generation-based conflicts in Taiwan's hybrid system of modern matrimony. From the bridal photographs, the book opens out into broader issues…

Book details

List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/8/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 310
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Framings


How Can This Be? Ethnographic Contexts and History


Fantasy for Sale: The Modern Bridal Industry


Inner and Outer Worlds in Changing Taipei


Family Wedding Rites and Banquets


Making Up the Bride


Romance in the Photo Studio


Contextualizing Bridal Photos in Taiwan's Visual Culture


The Context of Looking: What Taipei Viewers See Conclusion: Reframings


Notes


Bibliography


Index