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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.

Love --- Capitalism --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Family & Marriage --- Market economy --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital --- Affection --- Emotions --- First loves --- Friendship --- Intimacy (Psychology) --- Love. --- Capitalism. --- 20th century american culture. --- 20th century american films. --- advertising. --- american film. --- american love. --- american movies. --- beauty products. --- collective imagination. --- consumer capitalism. --- dating. --- diet drinks. --- ethos of consumption. --- hollywood films. --- love and happiness. --- love and romance. --- love in film. --- love on television. --- lovemaking. --- marriage. --- mass media. --- material goods. --- media images. --- media studies. --- postmodern social theory. --- postmodernism. --- public representations. --- romantic utopia. --- snack foods. --- sports cars. --- utopia.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries held in Pisa, Italy, in September 1997. The volume presents 23 revised full papers selected from 77 submissions. Also included are two invited contributions. The papers are organized in topical sections on supporting user interfaces, metadata, information retrieval, DL architectures, multilingual information retrieval, structured documents, and case studies.

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