Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural Contradictions of CapitalismUniversity of California Press, 28 d’abr. 2023 - 332 pàgines To what extent are our most romantic moments determined by the portrayal of love in film and on TV? Is a walk on a moonlit beach a moment of perfect romance or simply a simulation of the familiar ideal seen again and again on billboards and movie screens? In her unique study of American love in the twentieth century, Eva Illouz unravels the mass of images that define our ideas of love and romance, revealing that the experience of "true" love is deeply embedded in the experience of consumer capitalism. Illouz studies how individual conceptions of love overlap with the world of clichés and images she calls the "Romantic Utopia." This utopia lives in the collective imagination of the nation and is built on images that unite amorous and economic activities in the rituals of dating, lovemaking, and marriage. Since the early 1900s, advertisers have tied the purchase of beauty products, sports cars, diet drinks, and snack foods to success in love and happiness. Illouz reveals that, ultimately, every cliché of romance—from an intimate dinner to a dozen red roses—is constructed by advertising and media images that preach a democratic ethos of consumption: material goods and happiness are available to all. Engaging and witty, Illouz's study begins with readings of ads, songs, films, and other public representations of romance and concludes with individual interviews in order to analyze the ways in which mass messages are internalized. Combining extensive historical research, interviews, and postmodern social theory, Illouz brings an impressive scholarship to her fascinating portrait of love in America. |
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... Natural Love 91 Romance as Invisible Affluence 95 Codes Are Getting Tired IOI Conclusion IIO Chapter 4. An All - Consuming Love Reenchanting the World A Consuming Romance The Luxury of Romance 113 120 132 137 Travel , Nature , and ...
... Natural Love 91 Romance as Invisible Affluence 95 Codes Are Getting Tired IOI Conclusion IIO Chapter 4. An All - Consuming Love Reenchanting the World A Consuming Romance The Luxury of Romance 113 120 132 137 Travel , Nature , and ...
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... Natural Love 91 Romance as Invisible Affluence Codes Are Getting Tired Conclusion IIO 95 ΙΟΙ Chapter 4. An All - Consuming Love Reenchanting the World 113 I 20 A Consuming Romance The Luxury of Romance 132 Travel , Nature , and Romance ...
... Natural Love 91 Romance as Invisible Affluence Codes Are Getting Tired Conclusion IIO 95 ΙΟΙ Chapter 4. An All - Consuming Love Reenchanting the World 113 I 20 A Consuming Romance The Luxury of Romance 132 Travel , Nature , and Romance ...
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... Nature . Roman- tic practices include transgressive rituals that oppose the values of the productive sphere and celebrate personal freedom , but these rituals are ultimately based in the market . In line with Durkheim's and Turner's ...
... Nature . Roman- tic practices include transgressive rituals that oppose the values of the productive sphere and celebrate personal freedom , but these rituals are ultimately based in the market . In line with Durkheim's and Turner's ...
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... in post- modern culture , the nexus of romance and consumption is embodied in diverse symbolic forms of liminality , for example , in contemplating the spectacle of nature ( chapter 3 ) , in traveling 14 Introduction.
... in post- modern culture , the nexus of romance and consumption is embodied in diverse symbolic forms of liminality , for example , in contemplating the spectacle of nature ( chapter 3 ) , in traveling 14 Introduction.
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... nature now dominate advertising images of ro- mance . These images offer the utopian vision of an organic bond , free of the inequalities of the public sphere of production , and mix nineteenth- century bucolic traditions with a ...
... nature now dominate advertising images of ro- mance . These images offer the utopian vision of an organic bond , free of the inequalities of the public sphere of production , and mix nineteenth- century bucolic traditions with a ...
Continguts
A Postmodern Romantic Condition | 160 |
Conclusion | 169 |
Reason within Passion | 175 |
Charting the Heart | 178 |
Passion within Reason Reason within Passion | 180 |
The Uncertainties of the Heart | 184 |
Therapeutic Discourse as Reflexive Discourse | 189 |
The Reasons for Passion | 196 |
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Dating and the Spirit of Consumerism | 54 |
Conclusion | 64 |
From the Romantic Utopia to the American Dream | 69 |
You Could Be Here Now | 71 |
Such a Natural Love | 79 |
Romance as Invisible Affluence | 83 |
Codes Are Getting Tired | 89 |
Conclusion | 98 |
An AllConsuming Love | 100 |
Reenchanting the World | 101 |
A Consuming Romance | 108 |
The Luxury of Romance | 120 |
Travel Nature and Romance | 125 |
Romance as Liminality | 130 |
Ideology or Utopia? | 133 |
Conclusion | 139 |
Real Fictions and Fictional Realities | 141 |
Love at First Sight | 145 |
Realist Love | 148 |
Reality as Fiction | 154 |
Fiction as Reality | 158 |
Agapic and Erosic Love | 199 |
a Very Reasonable Madness | 203 |
Socioeconomic Boundaries | 208 |
Moral and Personality Boundaries | 215 |
Educational and Cultural Boundaries | 218 |
I Talk Therefore You Love Me | 220 |
Love for Free | 228 |
Conclusion | 233 |
The Class of Love | 235 |
The Elementary Forms of Romance | 237 |
Love as Difference | 239 |
Love and Symbolic Domination | 253 |
Class Romance and the Structure of Everyday Life | 256 |
Conclusion | 273 |
A Happy Ending? | 276 |
A Few Words About Methods | 285 |
Questionnaire | 292 |
Images of Romance | 300 |
Notes | 305 |
References | 333 |
Index | 353 |
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