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First Comes Love: Power Couples, Celebrity Kinship and Cultural Politics
Cobb Shelley
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Description for First Comes Love: Power Couples, Celebrity Kinship and Cultural Politics
Paperback. Editor(s): Cobb, Shelley; Ewen, Neil. Num Pages: 392 pages, 25 bw illus. BIC Classification: JFCA; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 582.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781628921229
SKU
V9781628921229
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99-10
About Cobb Shelley
Shelley Cobb is Associate Professor in Film and English at the University of Southampton, UK. Her research interests center on women and contemporary media culture. She is the author of Adaptation, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers (2014) and has published on women directors, celebrity culture, chick-flicks, film adaptation, and breast cancer culture. She is the principal investigator of the AHRC-funded ... Read more
Reviews for First Comes Love: Power Couples, Celebrity Kinship and Cultural Politics
First Comes Love is one of the very finest edited collections that I have had the pleasure of reading. Its examination of celebrity couples is complex, diverse, provocative and challenging. Whether this be an examination of golden couple Brangelina, or the undressing of the gilded garments of Garbo and Gilbert, the book traverses the way celebrity couples are engaged ... Read more