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: 9780520238343

ISBN-10: 0520238346

ISBN-13: 9780520238343

Edition: 2004

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: $34.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/8/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 310
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.100
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