Framing the bride [Elektronisk resurs] globalizing beauty and romance in Taiwan's bridal industry / Bonnie Adrian.

• List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Framings; 1. How Can This Be? Ethnographic Contexts and History; 2. Fantasy for Sale: The Modern Bridal Industry; 3. Inner and Outer Worlds in Changing Taipei; 4. Family Wedding Rites and Banquets; 5. Making Up the Bride; 6. Romance in the Photo Studio; 7. Contextualizing Bridal Photos in Taiwan's Visual Culture; 8. The Context of Looking: What Taipei Viewers See; Conclusion: Reframings; Notes; Bibliography; Index. 

• 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. 

Ämnesord

Wedding supplies and services industry  -- Taiwan. (LCSH)

Weddings  -- Taiwan -- Equipment and supplies. (LCSH)

Bridal shops  -- Taiwan. (LCSH)

Wedding photography  -- Taiwan. (LCSH)

Bröllop  -- Taiwan (sao)

Bröllop  -- ekonomiska aspekter -- Taiwan (sao)

Genre

Electronic books.  (LCSH)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Mza-oea Etnografi: högtider och fester: Kina

Qcg-oea Umgängeskonst, etikettfrågor och andra personliga förhållanden: Kina

Klassifikation

HD9999.W373T283 2003 (LCC)

338.4/73925/0951249 (DDC)

Mza-oeaf (kssb/7)

Qcg-oeaf (kssb/7)