1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965150903321

Autore

Otnes Cele

Titolo

Cinderella dreams : the allure of the lavish wedding / / Cele C. Otnes, Elizabeth H. Pleck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003

ISBN

9786612359781

9781597345392

1597345393

9781282359789

1282359789

9780520937505

0520937503

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (401 p.)

Collana

Life passages ; ; 2

Altri autori (Persone)

PleckElizabeth H <1945-> (Elizabeth Hafkin)

Disciplina

395.2/2

Soggetti

Weddings

Weddings in popular culture

Consumer behavior

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-363) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Romance, magic, memory, and perfection -- The rise of the lavish wedding -- The engagement complex -- The rituals of wedding shopping -- The wedding weekend -- From the cabin to Cancun -- Hollywood hosts a wedding -- The lavish wedding goes global -- Variations on a theme -- The allure of the lavish wedding.

Sommario/riassunto

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 sacred tenets of American culture-romantic love and excessive consumption. For anyone who has ever wondered about the meanings behind a white dress, a diamond ring, rice, and traditions such as cake cutting, bouquet tossing, and honeymooning, this book offers an entertaining and enlightening look at the historical, social, and psychological strains that come together to make the lavish wedding the most important cultural ritual in contemporary consumer culture. With an emphasis on North American



society, Cele C. Otnes and Elizabeth H. Pleck show how the elaborate wedding means far more than a mere triumph for the bridal industry. Through interviews, media accounts, and wide-ranging research and analysis, they expose the wedding's reflection-or reproduction-of fundamental aspects of popular consumer culture: its link with romantic love, its promise of magical transformation, its engendering of memories, and its legitimization of consumption as an expression of perfection. As meaningful as any prospective bride might wish, the lavish wedding emerges here as a lens that at once reveals, magnifies, and reveres some of the dearest wishes and darkest impulses at the heart of our culture.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910230826403321

Titolo

Immagini di uomini e di donne dalle necropoli villanoviane di Verucchio : atti delle Giornate di studio dedicate a Renato Peroni, Verucchio, 20-22 aprile 2011 / / a cura di Patrizia von Eles ... [et al.] ; testi di Pietro Baraldi ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sesto Fiorentino, : All'insegna del Giglio, 2015

Altri autori (Persone)

Eles MasiPatrizia von

BaraldiPietro

PeroniRenato

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911053070003321

Titolo

Advances and Applications of Block Copolymers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2023

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Soggetti

Chemistry

Organic chemistry

Research & information: general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The most important class of polymers is block copolymers (BCPs) since they can be prepared through different methods and exhibit various properties combined with chemically different segments. The importance of block copolymers can be supported by the multitude of related manuscripts published daily, their use in practical applications in almost all areas, and novel discoveries based on BCPs in many aspects of life. This Special Issue focuses on various matters from different areas of block copolymer research, showing advances and applications in self-assembly, crystallization, synthesis, chemical modification, 3D printing, membranes, energy materials, nanotechnology, hybrid materials, micelles, order-disorder transition, and biomaterials.