LEADER 03855nam 22006974a 450 001 9910807117103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-520-93003-7 010 $a1-282-75920-5 010 $a9786612759208 010 $a1-59734-620-9 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520930032 035 $a(CKB)1000000000003076 035 $a(EBL)224175 035 $a(OCoLC)228064276 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000157865 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11153029 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000157865 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10140581 035 $a(PQKB)10555172 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC224175 035 $a(DE-B1597)519155 035 $a(OCoLC)55530289 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520930032 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL224175 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10057121 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275920 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000003076 100 $a20021101d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFraming the bride $eglobalizing beauty and romance in Taiwan's bridal industry /$fBonnie Adrian 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (313 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-23833-8 311 $a0-520-23834-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFramings -- How can this be? ethnographic contexts and history -- Fantasy for sale -- Inner and outer worlds in changing Taipei -- Family wedding rites and banquets -- Making up the bride -- Romance in the photo studio -- Contextualizing bridal photos in Taiwan's visual culture -- The context of looking -- Conclusion : re-framings. 330 $aWith 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. 606 $aWedding supplies and services industry$zTaiwan 606 $aWeddings$zTaiwan$xEquipment and supplies 606 $aBridal shops$zTaiwan 606 $aWedding photography$zTaiwan 615 0$aWedding supplies and services industry 615 0$aWeddings$xEquipment and supplies. 615 0$aBridal shops 615 0$aWedding photography 676 $a338.4/73925/0951249 700 $aAdrian$b Bonnie$f1970-$01674960 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807117103321 996 $aFraming the bride$94040106 997 $aUNINA