First Comes Love : Power Couples, Celebrity Kinship and Cultural Politics
- Submitting institution
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University of Southampton
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 19198787
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.5040/9781501304699
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN
- 9781628921229
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- This book was a joint project by the editors from its inception: beginning as a joint-research paper for University College Dublin (February 2012), it became the subject of a one-day conference co-organised at the University of Southampton (November 2012) before being revised and significantly expanded into book form. Cobb and Ewen reviewed and edited all chapters, with each each taking a lead on half before sharing with the other for additional feedback and proofreading. The book has an overall introduction and four section introductions totalling 8500 words, all jointly written by the editors. The book’s original contribution is a catalytic remaking, rethinking and retheorising of the elemental role of kinships and romantic relationships in the formation, development and sustainment of fame and infamy, which scholars have theorised and investigated almost exclusively as embodied in the individual. The seventeen chapters in the book are written by world-renowned professors, leading scholars, and up-and-coming ECRs and PGRs in the fields of celebrity studies, film studies and literary studies. Topics range from the Golden Age of star couples of literature and screen in the 1920s to twenty-first century reality TV celebrity families, to political power couples in South Korea and the British royal family, to classic and contemporary Hollywood star couples. Several employ archival research and all are between 7000 and 9500 words. Cobb’s own contribution to the book is a 9000 word chapter on the daytime talk show host Ellen Degeneres’ relationship with Portia Degeneres which argues that their high profile wedding and repeated foregrounding of their marriage on Degeneres’s show played a significant role in the media debates about and ultimate success of equal marriage in the USA, while at the same time they also contributed to a reinforced culture of heteronormativity and a marginalisation of radical anti-marriage politics in LGBTQ+ culture.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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