First Comes Love - Power Couples, Celebrity Kinship and Cultural Politics (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2015
Editors:	Shelley Cobb • Neil Ewen
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	392
ISBN-13:	978-1-62892-121-2
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > General Promotions
LSN:	1-62892-121-8
Barcode:	9781628921212

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