The document discusses how media outlets both challenge and encourage traditional ideologies of marriage. It notes that marriage has historically been viewed as a ritual and tradition, but that interracial and same-sex relationships were once stigmatized. It analyzes how several films, such as Imitation of Life and Natural Born Killers, portrayed marriage and relationships in challenging traditional or twisted ways. However, it also acknowledges that some traditions of marriage remain the same, while other aspects are changing as marriage can now go beyond gender and race.