As Long as We Both Shall Love: The White Wedding in Postwar America

by Karen M Dunak

Book Overview

In As Long as We Both Shall Love, Karen M. Dunak provides a nuanced history of the American wedding and its celebrants. Blending an analysis of film, fiction, advertising, and prescriptive literature with personal views from letters, diaries, essays, and oral histories, Dunak demonstrates the ways in which the modern wedding epitomizes a diverse and consumerist culture and aims to reveal an ongoing debate about the power of peer culture, media,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479858358
• ISBN13: 9781479858354
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"