First comes love : power couples, celebrity kinship, and cultural politics / edited by Shelley Cobb and Neil Ewen.

"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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Shelley Cobb and Neil Ewen -- Golden Couples. Introduction -- 'Gilbo-Garbage' or 'The Champion Lovemakers of Two Nations': Uncoupling Greta Garbo and John Gilbert / Michael Williams -- 'The Most Envied Couple in America in 1921': Making the Social Register in the Scrapbooks of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald / Sarah Churchwell -- 'Good Fellowship': Carole Lombard and Clark Gable / Michael Hammond -- Kinships. Introduction -- Filial Coupling, the Incest Narrative, and the O'Neals / Maria Pramaggiore -- A Star is Born?: Rishi Kapoor and Dynastic Charisma in Hindi Cinema / Rachel Dwyer -- Eddie Murphy's Baby Mama Drama and Smith Family Values: The (Post- ) Racial Familial Politics of Hollywood Celebrity Couples / Hannah Hamad -- Momager of the Brides: Kris Jenner's Management of Kardashian Romance / Alice Leppert -- Marriage. Introduction -- Diana's Rings: Fetishizing The Royal Couple / Margaret Schwartz -- Behind Every Great Woman --?: Celebrity, Political Leadership, and the Privileging of Marriage / Anthea Taylor -- It's the Thought That Counts: North Korea's Glocalization of the Celebrity Couple and the Mediated Politics of Reform / David Zeglen -- Ellen and Portia's Wedding: The Politics of Same-Sex Marriage and Celesbianism / Shelley Cobb -- Audrey Hollander and Otto Bauer: The Perfect (Pornographic) Marriage? / Beccy Collings -- Love. Introduction -- The Return of Liz and Dick / Suzanne Leonard -- 'Brad & Angelina: And Now. Brangelina!': A Sociocultural Analysis of Blended Celebrity Couple Names / Vanessa Diaz -- Jane Fonda, Power Nuptials, and the Project of Aging / Linda Ruth Williams -- The Making, Unmaking and Re-Making of 'Robsten' / Diane Negra -- The Good, the Bad, and the Broken: Forms and Functions of Neoliberal Celebrity Relationships / Neil Ewen.

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