First Comes Love: Power Couples, Celebrity Kinship and Cultural Politics

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Shelley Cobb, Neil Ewen
Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 27 авг. 2015 г. - Всего страниц: 371

With the prominence of one-name couples (Brangelina, Kimye) and famous families (the Smiths, the Beckhams), it is becoming increasingly clear that celebrity is no longer an individual pursuit-if it ever was. Accordingly, First Comes Love explores celebrity kinship and the phenomenon of the power couple: those relationships where two stars come together and where their individual identities as celebrities become inseparable from their status as a famous twosome.

Taken together, the chapters in this volume interrogate the ways these alliances are bound up in wider cultural debates about marriage, love, intimacy, family, parenthood, sexuality, and gender, in their particular historical contexts, from the 1920s to the present day. Interdisciplinary in scope, First Comes Love seeks to establish how celebrity relationships play particular roles in dramatizing, disrupting, and reconciling often-contradictory ideas about coupledom and kinship formations.

 

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Introduction
1
Golden Couples
9
Uncoupling Greta Garbo and John Gilbert
13
Making the Social Register in the Scrapbooks of F Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
29
Carole Lombard and Clark Gable
53
Kinship
73
Chapter 4 Filial Coupling the Incest Narrative and the ONeals
78
Rishi Kapoor and Dynastic Charisma in Hindi Cinema
96
Celebrity Political Leadership and the Privileging of Marriage
169
North Koreas Glocalization of the Celebrity Couple and the Mediated Politics of Reform
188
The Politics of SameSex Marriage and Celesbianism
211
The Perfect Pornographic Marriage?
235
Love
255
Chapter 13 The Return of Liz and Dick
260
And Now Brangelina A Sociocultural Analysis of Blended Celebrity Couple Names
275
Chapter 15 Jane Fonda Power Nuptials and the Project of Ageing
295

The Post Racial Familial Politics of Hollywood Celebrity Couples
116
Kris Jenners Management of Kardashian Romance
133
Marriage
151
Fetishizing The Royal Couple
155
Chapter 16 The Making Unmaking and ReMaking of Robsten
313
Forms and Functions of Neoliberal Celebrity Relationships
331
Index
359
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Shelley Cobb is Associate Professor of English and Film at the University of Southampton, UK. Her research interests center on women and contemporary media culture and her writing has appeared inGenders.org, Adaptation, Social Semiotics, and Celebrity Studies. She is the author ofAdaptation, Authorship, and Contemporary Women Filmmakers (2014) and is Principle Investigator of the research project Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary Film Culture in the UK, 2000-2015, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.


Neil Ewen
is Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Winchester, UK. His research concerns cultural politics, particularly in the realms of sport and celebrity. His writing has appeared in such publications asSport in History, The International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics,Celebrity Studies, and In Media Res.

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