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First comes love : power couples, celebrity kinship, and cultural politics

Cobb, Shelley, editor, Ewen, Neil, editor

Overview

\"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. In this light, 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. Each chapter interrogates 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, this collection seeks to establish how celebrity relationships have a particular role in dramatizing, disrupting, and reconciling often-contradictory ideas about coupledom and kinship formations\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Subject: Celebrities Social aspects. / Unmarried couples. / Married people. / Popular culture United States. / Fame Social aspects. / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
• ISBN: 9781628921212, 1628921218, 9781628921229, 1628921226

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
CT105.F46 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE