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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor Shelley Cobb is Professor of Film and Feminist Media Studies at the University of Southampton, UK. She led the AHRC-funded project Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary Film Culture in the UK and is the author of Adaptation, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers (2014) and co-editor of First Comes Love: Power Couples, Celebrity Kinship and Cultural Politics (Bloomsbury, 2015). She has published widely on the film industry, women and popular culture, gender, and celebrity. Neil Ewen is Senior Lecturer and Head of Communications at the University of Exeter, UK. He is the co-editor of First Comes Love: Power Couples, Celebrity Kinship, and Cultural Politics (Bloomsbury, 2015), Capitalism, Crime and Media in the 21st Century (2021), and special issues of Television and New Media on the TV show Friends (2018) and Celebrity Studies on populist political celebrities in contemporary Europe (2020). He is Cultural Report section editor of the journal Celebrity Studies . Vorwort Examines media treatment of power couples and celebrity relationships. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction Shelley Cobb, University of Southampton, UK, and Neil Ewen, University of Winchester, UK I. Golden Couples Introduction Shelley 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 JohnGilbert Michael 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 Fitzgerald Sarah Churchwell, University of East Anglia, UK ‘Good Fellowship’: Carole Lombard and Clark Gable Michael Hammond, University of Southampton, UK II. Kinships Introduction Shelley Cobb, University of Southampton, UK, and Neil Ewen , University of Winchester, UK Filial Coupling, the Incest Narrative, and the O’Neals Maria Pramaggiore, Maynooth University, Ireland A Star is Born?: Rishi Kapoor and Dynastic Charisma in Hindi Cinema Rachel Dwyer, SOAS, University of London, UK Eddie Murphy’s Baby Mama Drama and Smith Family Values: The (Post-) Racial Familial Politics of...
