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 …

This text argues that fashion and the imagery surrounding it give us a vision of Western
culture that is both enticing and alienating, flaunting capitalism's euphoric emblems of …

“Pretend We're Dead sets our monsters free of the dank laboratory of psychosexual studies
and sends them rampaging across the landscape of economic reality. A sweeping …

The Culture of Love interprets the sweeping change in loving that spanned a period when
scientific discoveries reduced the terrors and dangers of sex, when new laws gave married …

Consuming passions: the dynamics of popular culture - UCARO UCA - University for the
Creative Arts Home Browse Creator School Research Centre Year Theses Category Latest …

“My ideas of romance came from the movies,” said Woody Allen, and it is to the movies—as
well as to novels, advice columns, and self-help books—that David Shumway turns for his …

The fabulous gown, the multitiered cake, abundant flowers, attendants and guests in their
finery. The white wedding does more than mark a life passage. It marries two of the most …

Between Jesus and the Market looks at the appeal of the Christian right-wing movement in
contemporary American politics and culture. In her discussions of books and videotapes that …

Much of feminist theory tends to envisage the woman's relation to the commodity in terms of"
being" rather than" having": she is the object of exchange rather than its subject. 1 What is …

To love someone romantically is—at least according to innumerable literary works, much
received wisdom, and even a gradually coalescing academic consensus—to experience a …