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First Comes Love: Power Couples, Celebrity Kinship and Cultural Politics de Professor Shelley Cobb

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

Editat de Professor Shelley Cobb, Dr. Neil Ewen
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 aug 2015
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781628921229
ISBN-10: 1628921226
Pagini: 392
Ilustrații: 25 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Develops a critical language for thinking about notions of love and kinship by interrogating a wide range of celebrities across multiple realms of public culture, including Hollywood, politics, literature, sport, and royalty

Notă biografică

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 research project 'Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary UK Film Culture, 2000 - 2015.' Neil Ewen is a Lecturer in Film and 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 various academic publications, and he is currently preparing a monograph on soccer, affect, and national identity in England.

Cuprins

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Contributors IntroductionShelley Cobb, University of Southampton, UK, and Neil Ewen, University of Winchester, UK I. Golden Couples IntroductionShelley Cobb, University of Southampton, UK, and Neil Ewen, University of Winchester, UK 'Gilbo-Garbage' or 'The Champion Lovemakers of Two Nations': Uncoupling Greta Garbo and JohnGilbertMichael Williams, University of Southampton, UK'The Most Envied Couple in America in 1921': Making the Social Register in the Scrapbooks of F.Scott and Zelda FitzgeraldSarah Churchwell, University of East Anglia, UK 'Good Fellowship': Carole Lombard and Clark GableMichael Hammond, University of Southampton, UK II. Kinships IntroductionShelley Cobb, University of Southampton, UK, and Neil Ewen, University of Winchester, UK Filial Coupling, the Incest Narrative, and the O'NealsMaria Pramaggiore, Maynooth University, Ireland A Star is Born?: Rishi Kapoor and Dynastic Charisma in Hindi CinemaRachel Dwyer, SOAS, University of London, UK Eddie Murphy's Baby Mama Drama and Smith Family Values: The (Post-) Racial Familial Politics of Hollywood Celebrity CouplesHannah Hamad, King's College London, UK Momager of the Brides: Kris Jenner's Management of Kardashian RomanceAlice Leppert, Ursinus College, USA III. Marriage IntroductionShelley Cobb, University of Southampton, UK, and Neil Ewen, University of Winchester, UK Diana's Rings: Fetishizing The Royal CoupleMargaret Schwartz, Fordham University, USA Behind Every Great Woman.?: Celebrity, Political Leadership, and the Privileging of MarriageAnthea Taylor, University of Queensland, Australia It's the Thought That Counts: North Korea's Glocalization of the Celebrity Couple and the Mediated Politics of ReformDavid Zeglen, George Mason University, USAEllen and Portia's Wedding: The Politics of Same-Sex Marriage and Celesbianism Shelley Cobb, University of Southampton, UK Audrey Hollander and Otto Bauer: The Perfect (Pornographic) Marriage?Beccy Collings, University of East Anglia, UK IV. Love IntroductionShelley Cobb, University of Southampton, UK, and Neil Ewen, University of Winchester, UK The Return of Liz and DickSuzanne Leonard, Simmons College, USA 'Brad & Angelina: And Now . . . Brangelina!': A Sociocultural Analysis of Blended Celebrity Couple NamesVanessa Diaz, University of Michigan, USA Jane Fonda, Power Nuptials, and the Project of AgingLinda Ruth Williams, University of Southampton, UK The Making, Unmaking and Re-Making of 'Robsten'Diane Negra, University College Dublin The Good, the Bad, and the Broken: Forms and Functions of Neoliberal Celebrity Relationships Neil Ewen, University of Winchester, UK Index

Recenzii

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 with historically, textually, and globally. Each chapter is a critical delight, the footprints immaculately chosen, and the arguments and illustrations intricate and delicate in equal measure. Beautiful.
From Lombard and Gable to Brangelina and the Kardashian clan, power couples and famous families have occupied public attention while until now mostly evading analytical scrutiny. In First Comes Love, Shelley Cobb and Neil Ewen-or, as they may soon be known, Sheneil-bring together a sharp, lively crew of scholars, whose smart takes on celebrity couples and kin, and on topics ranging from racial politics and same-sex marriage to aging and neoliberalism, open new pathways in celebrity studies.