Framing the Bride

preview-18
  • Framing the Bride Book Detail

  • Author : Bonnie Adrian
  • Release Date : 2003-12-08
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 316
  • ISBN 13 : 9780520930032
  • File Size : 54,54 MB

Framing the Bride by Bonnie Adrian PDF Summary

Book Description: 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 Bride shows 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 such as courtship, marriage, kinship, globalization, and the meaning of the "West" and "Western" cultural images of beauty. Bonnie Adrian argues that in compiling enormous bridal albums full of photographs of brides and grooms in varieties of finery, posed in different places, and exuding romance, Taiwanese brides engage in a new rite of passage—one that challenges the terms of marriage set out in conventional wedding rites. In Framing the Bride, we see how this practice is also a creative response to U.S. domination of transnational visual imagery—how bridal photographers and their subjects take the project of globalization into their own hands, defining its terms for their lives even as they expose the emptiness of its images.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Framing the Bride books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Framing the Bride

Framing the Bride

File Size : 32,32 MB
Total View : 5779 Views
DOWNLOAD

With a wedding impending, the Taiwanese bride-to-be turns to bridal photographers, makeup artists, and hair stylists to transform her image beyond recognition.

The Ghost Who Sought Redemption

The Ghost Who Sought Redemption

File Size : 15,15 MB
Total View : 7681 Views
DOWNLOAD

Two newborns and a toddler under one roof, with another one on the way, can be challenging for any parent, but add an unwelcome spirit with the sketchiest of re

Intimacies

Intimacies

File Size : 32,32 MB
Total View : 3516 Views
DOWNLOAD

Examines how different cultures rationalize the expression of passionate and comfort love and physical sex. --From publisher description.

Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow

Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow

File Size : 73,73 MB
Total View : 8474 Views
DOWNLOAD

Since the mid-1990s, Taiwan’s unique brand of Mandopop (Mandarin Chinese–language pop music) has dictated the musical tastes of the mainland and the rest of

Violence and Vengeance

Violence and Vengeance

File Size : 76,76 MB
Total View : 3509 Views
DOWNLOAD

Between 1999 and 2000, sectarian fighting fanned across the eastern Indonesian province of North Maluku experienced leaving thousands dead and hundreds of thous