First comes love : power couples, celebrity kinship, and cultural politics
2015
Books, Manuscripts
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, this book 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.
Main title:
First comes love : power couples, celebrity kinship, and cultural politics / edited by Shelley Cobb and Neil Ewen.
Author:
Cobb, Shelley., editorEwen, Neil, editor
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2015.
Collation:
320 pages : illustrations (black and white)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781628921229 (pbk)
Dewey class:
306.81
Language:
English
BRN:
2058400
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