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    “I-Do” Feminism Courtesy of Martha Stewart Weddings and HBC’s Vow To Wow Club : Inventing Modern Matrimonial Tradition with Glue Sticks and Cuisinart

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    This article examines the wedding gift registry as a newly invented tradition and part of the increasing commodification of everyday life and its rites of passage. The research involves both a deconstructive discursive analysis and a critique of the visual rhetoric in advertisements promoting registries for the newly engaged. To consider the cultural context within which marketing for wedding gift registries is proliferating, the author begins with the stories of two connected figures, both lifted from national newswires. Then she argues that the escalating trend of the wedding registry gains momentum because of its placement between these two conjoined images, namely: the spectre of the scandalous and hysterical “runaway bride” and her sister, the hip and paradoxical “I-Do Feminist.”Cet article examine la liste de mariage en tant que tradition nouvellement inventĂ©e et comme faisant partie de la mercantilisation croissante de la vie quotidienne et de ses rites de passage. La recherche implique Ă  la fois une analyse dĂ©constructiviste du discours et une critique de la rhĂ©torique visuelle des publicitĂ©s faisant la promotion des listes de mariage pour les nouveaux fiancĂ©s. Afin de considĂ©rer le contexte Ă  l’intĂ©rieur duquel prolifĂšrent ces mises en marchĂ© des listes de mariage, l’auteure commence par les histoires de deux reprĂ©sentations connectĂ©es, tirĂ©es toutes deux d’émissions nationales. Elle soutient ensuite que la tendance Ă  l’escalade que l’on constate dans les listes de mariage gagne en vigueur parce qu’elles se situent entre ces deux images conjointes que sont : le spectre de la scandaleuse et hystĂ©rique « mariĂ©e en fuite » et sa soeur branchĂ©e et paradoxale, la fĂ©ministe « Oui, je le veux »

    Fairy Tale Films

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    In this, the first collection of essays to address the development of fairy tale film as a genre, Pauline Greenhill and Sidney Eve Matrix stress, the mirror of fairy-tale film reflects not so much what its audience members actually are but how they see themselves and their potential to develop (or, likewise, to regress). As Jack Zipes says further in the foreword, “Folk and fairy tales pervade our lives constantly through television soap operas and commercials, in comic books and cartoons, in school plays and storytelling performances, in our superstitions and prayers for miracles, and in our dreams and daydreams. The artistic re-creations of fairy-tale plots and characters in film—the parodies, the aesthetic experimentation, and the mixing of genres to engender new insights into art and life— mirror possibilities of estranging ourselves from designated roles, along with the conventional patterns of the classical tales.” Here, scholars from film, folklore, and cultural studies move discussion beyond the well-known Disney movies to the many other filmic adaptations of fairy tales and to the widespread use of fairy tale tropes, themes, and motifs in cinema.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/1060/thumbnail.jp

    “I-Do” Feminism Courtesy of Martha Stewart Weddings and HBC’s Vow To Wow Club

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    This article examines the wedding gift registry as a newly invented tradition and part of the increasing commodification of everyday life and its rites of passage. The research involves both a deconstructive discursive analysis and a critique of the visual rhetoric in advertisements promoting registries for the newly engaged. To consider the cultural context within which marketing for wedding gift registries is proliferating, the author begins with the stories of two connected figures, both lifted from national newswires. Then she argues that the escalating trend of the wedding registry gains momentum because of its placement between these two conjoined images, namely: the spectre of the scandalous and hysterical “runaway bride” and her sister, the hip and paradoxical “I-Do Feminist.”Cet article examine la liste de mariage en tant que tradition nouvellement inventĂ©e et comme faisant partie de la mercantilisation croissante de la vie quotidienne et de ses rites de passage. La recherche implique Ă  la fois une analyse dĂ©constructiviste du discours et une critique de la rhĂ©torique visuelle des publicitĂ©s faisant la promotion des listes de mariage pour les nouveaux fiancĂ©s. Afin de considĂ©rer le contexte Ă  l’intĂ©rieur duquel prolifĂšrent ces mises en marchĂ© des listes de mariage, l’auteure commence par les histoires de deux reprĂ©sentations connectĂ©es, tirĂ©es toutes deux d’émissions nationales. Elle soutient ensuite que la tendance Ă  l’escalade que l’on constate dans les listes de mariage gagne en vigueur parce qu’elles se situent entre ces deux images conjointes que sont : le spectre de la scandaleuse et hystĂ©rique « mariĂ©e en fuite » et sa soeur branchĂ©e et paradoxale, la fĂ©ministe « Oui, je le veux »
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