"Dis-illusioning" as discovery: the research basis and media literacy applications of Dr. FUN's Mass Media Love Quiz© and Dr. Galician's Prescriptions© / Mary-Lou Galician
Cyberdating success stories and the mythic narrative of living "happily-ever-after with the one" / Sharon R. Mazzarella
Brewing romance: the romantic fantasy theme of the Taster's Choice "couple" advertising campaign / Olaf Werder
Promoting easy sex without genuine intimacy: Maxim and Cosmopolitan cover lines and cover images / Sammye Johnson
What's love got to do with it? Mode readers expose and perpetuate mediated myths of romance / Julie E. Ferris
Write romance: Zora Neale Hurston's love prescription in Their eyes were watching God / Meta G. Carstarphen
Interracial love on television: what's taboo still and what's not / Sharon Bramlett-Solomon
Jennifer Lopez and a Hollywood Latina romance film: mythic motifs in Maid in Manhattan / Diana I. Rios, Xae Alicia Reyes
Myths of sex, love, and romance of older women in Golden Girls / Jo Anna Grant, Heather L. Hundley
"Love will steer the stars" and other improbable feats: media myths in popular love songs / Anne Bader
Power, romance, and the "lone male hero": deciphering the double standard in The Da Vinci Code / Christine Scodari, Rhonda Trust
Gender equity stereotypes or prescriptions? Subtexts of the stairway scenes in the romantic films of Helen Hunt / David Natharius
Taming Brian: sex, love, and romance in Queer as Folk / R. Anthony Slagle, Gust A. Yep
Myths of romantic conflict in the television situation comedy / Aileen L.S. Buslig, Anthony M. Ocaña
'Til politics do us part: the political romance in Hollywood cinema / Jeanne Lynn Hall
"Five total strangers, with nothing in common": using Galician's seven-step dis-illusioning directions to think critically about The Breakfast Club / Jennifer Hays
Cue the lights and music: how cinematic devices contribute to the perpetuation of romantic myths in Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge / Amber Hutchins
Carpe Diem: relational scripts and "seizing the day" in the Hollywood romantic comedy / Laura L. Winn
Gangster of love? Tony Soprano's assault on romantic myths / Ron Leone, Wendy Chapman Peek
Remakes to remember: romantic myths in remade films and their original counterparts / Jennifer J. Asenas
"Must marry TV": the role of the heterosexual imaginary in The Bachelor / Andrea M. McClanahan
"Real" love myths and magnified media effects of The Bachelorette / Lisa M. Glebatis
The "Reality" of reality television wedding programs / Erika Engstrom
Unrealistic potrayals of sex, love, and romance in popular wedding films / Kevin A. Johnson
The agony or the ecstacy? Perceptions of Valentine's Day / Deborah Shelley
Appendix: Resource guide to Sex, love, and romance in the mass media: some additional publications, films, television shows, songs, and web sites / Debra L. Merskin.
