Will You Marry Me?:

doi:10.1111/j.0022-3840.2004.00105.x

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The Journal of Popular Culture

Volume 38 Issue 1, Pages 169 - 185

Published Online: 5 Jul 2004

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Will You Marry Me?:

Spectacle and Consumption in the Ritual of Marriage Proposals

Phillip Vannini ¹

¹ Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria

Phillip Vannini teaches media and popular culture in the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria. He has published research on semiotics, music, and popular culture in such journals as Symbolic Interaction, Studies in Symbolic Interaction, and CTheory.