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| Preface | |
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| "Dis-illusioning" as Discovery: The Research Basis and Media Literacy Applications of Dr. FUN's Mass Media Love Quiz� and Dr. Galician's Prescriptions�. | |
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| Attraction | |
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| Cyberdating Success Stories and the Mythic Narrative of "Living Happily-Ever-After With The One" | |
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| Brewing Romance: The Romantic Fantasy Theme of the Taster's Choice "Couple" Advertising Campaign | |
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| Promoting Easy Sex Without Genuine Intimacy: Maxim and Cosmopolitan Cover Lines and Cover Images | |
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| What's Love Got to Do With It? Mode Readers Expose and Perpetuate Mediated Myths of Romance | |
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| Hegemony | |
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| Write Romance: Zora Neale Hurston's Love Prescription in Their Eyes Were Watching God | |
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| Interracial Love on Television: What's Taboo Still and What's Not | |
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| Jennifer Lopez and a Hollywood Latina Romance Film: Mythic Motifs in Maid in Manhattan | |
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| Myths of Sex, Love, and Romance of Older Women in Golden Girls | |
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| "Love Will Steer the Stars" and Other Improbable Feats: Media Myths in Popular Love Songs | |
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| Power, Romance, and the "Lone Male Hero": Deciphering the Double Standard in The Da Vinci Code | |
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| Gender Equity Stereotypes or Prescriptions? Subtexts of the Stairway Scenes in the Romantic Films of Helen Hunt | |
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| Conflict | |
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| Taming Brian: Sex, Love, and Romance in Queer as Folk | |
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| Myths of Romantic Conflict in the Television Situation Comedy | |
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| 'Til Politics Do Us Part: The Political Romance in Hollywood Cinema | |
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| "Five Total Strangers, With Nothing in Common": Using Galician's Seven-Step Dis-illusioning Directions to Think Critically About The Breakfast Club | |
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| Cue the Lights and Music: How Cinematic Devices Contribute to the Perpetuation of Romantic Myths in Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge | |
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| Carpe Diem: Relational Scripts and "Seizing the Day" in the Hollywood Romantic Comedy | |
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| Gangster of Love? Tony Soprano's Assault on Romantic Myths | |
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| Remakes to Remember: Romantic Myths in Remade Films and Their Original Counterparts | |
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| Completion | |
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| "Must Marry TV": The Role of the Heterosexual Imaginary in The Bachelor | |
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| "Real" Love Myths and Magnified Media Effects of The Bachelorette | |
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| The "Reality" of Reality Television Wedding Programs | |
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| Unrealistic Portrayals of Sex, Love, and Romance in Popular Wedding Films | |
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| The Agony or the Ecstacy? Perceptions of Valentine's Day | |
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| Appendix: Resource Guide to Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media: Some Additional Publications, Films, Television Shows, Songs, and Web Sites | |
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