{"product_id":"framing-the-bride-bonnie-adrian-9780520238343","title":"Framing the Bride: Globalizing Beauty and Romance in Taiwan's Bridal Industry","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn absorbing consideration of contemporary bridal practices in Taiwan, \u003ci\u003eFraming the Bride\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBonnie 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 \u003ci\u003eFraming the Bride, \u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bonnie Adrian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520238346\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520238343\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/08\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.18w x 0.74d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2004 pg. 144","brand":"Bonnie Adrian","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46571030937855,"sku":"9780520238343","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3d5298fe-164d-4545-8300-5f1bfd86ceca.jpg?v=1738807041","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/framing-the-bride-bonnie-adrian-9780520238343","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}