Article: Galician, Mary-Lou. Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media: Analysis and Criticism of Unrealistic Portrayals and Their Influence.(Book review)

Galician, Mary-Lou. Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media: Analysis and Criticism of Unrealistic Portrayals and Their Influence. Mahwah, NJ and London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004. Pp. xxv, 252. ISBN 0-8058-4832-0 (pb.) $49.95.

The main goal of this book is clear from the very beginning: It should dis-illusion its readers!

As the author puts it:

 
   "False-love" images and scripts of coupleship put pressure on both 
   women and men to measure up to media-myth.... Some 
   media-constricted unrealistic expectations can lead to depression 
   and other dysfunctions, and several can be downright dangerous" (p. 
   x). The problem seems to be ...

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