The Wedding Spectacle Across Contemporary Media and Culture

Jilly Boyce Kay is Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester. Her forthcoming book Gender, Media and Voice focusses on the mediation of women’s voices and the concept of "communicative injustice". She has also published on mediated feminist anger, newspaper representations of the women’s suffrage movement in Britain and Ireland, reality television, and women’s television histories. She is Editor of the Cultural Commons section in the European Journal of Cultural Studies. Melanie Kennedy is Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester. She is the author of Tweenhood: Femininity and Celebrity in Tween Popular Culture. Her research examines media representations of gendered, age-defined, classed, raced identities (in particular tweens, young female celebrities, and teenage mothers), and the popular culture that addresses these subjects. She is the Associate Editor of Commentary and Criticism for Feminist Media Studies (Routledge). Helen Wood is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at at Lancaster University. She has published widely on television, class and audiences, including the books Talking with Television and Reacting to Reality Television, and the edited volume Television for Women: New Directions (Routledge 2012). She is also Editor of the European Journal of Cultural Studies.

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List of Contributors

Abstracts

Something Old, Something New: The Gender Politics of the Wedding Spectacle

Jilly Boyce Kay, Melanie Kennedy and Helen Wood






The Bride Wore Dread: Dissent and Desire for the Wedding Spectacle in Sex and the City, from the Box to the Big-screen
Deborah Jermyn




Making a Spectacle of Yourself: British-Asian Wedding Videography as Alternative Archives of Belonging
Jilly Boyce Kay and Kajal Nisha Patel




Weddings, Anti-Heroines, and Postfeminist Cynicism
Suzanne Leonard




Say Yes to the Dress and the Affective Rhythms of Repetition and Reflection
Natasha Whiteman and Helen Wood




Big Fat Royal Weddings: Kate the "Commoner" Princess and Classed Moral Economies
Laura Clancy




"Time for all of us to Walk into the Sunshine Together": Glee, Same-sex Wedding Spectacle and the Imagining of Queer Futures
Kate McNicholas Smith




Tailored for Marriage, Ready for the Stage: Frames of the Family Regime on "The Marriage Show
Feyza Akınerdem




Keeping it Classy: Wedding Dresses and Distinctions
Jenny Thatcher




Tailor-made Suits and "Crappy Drag Queens": Constructing Gay and Lesbian Weddings in Reality TV
Michael Lovelock




Spectacular Virgins: Purity Porn and the Making Uncanny of the White Wedding
Melanie Kennedy




On Blushing Brides and the Compulsory Logics of Hetero-Femininity: The Glow in Transatlantic Media Culture

Brenda R. Weber

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