Programme

All conference events take place in BUILDING 65 on the AVENUE CAMPUS of the University of Southampton.

0830 REGISTRATION (65/North Corridor)

0900 KEYNOTE 1 (65/LTC)
Mr and Mrs Jane Fonda: Aging stardom and celebrity-by-marriage.
Professor Linda Ruth Williams (Southampton)

1000 SESSION 1

Panel A – Early Hollywood Power Couples (65/LTC)
Chair: Gwenda Young

Hollywood’s Royalty: “Doug and Mary”
Dr. Gwenda Young (University College Cork)

“Sturdy Companionship”: Carole Lombard and Clark Gable
Dr. Michael Hammond (Southampton)

The Romantic Myth of Kate and Spence
Dr. Victoria Amador (American University of Sharjah)

Panel B – The Politics of Marriage (65/1173)
Chair: Deborah Jermyn

Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith: From Latin Lover and Hollywood Bad Girl to Loyal Husband
and Aging Female Star
Victoria Kearley (Southampton)

Marriage as Franchise in “Bethenny Ever After”
Dr. Suzanne Leonard (Simmons College)

The Perfect (Pornographic) Marriage?: Audrey Hollander and Otto Bauer
Beccy Collings (UEA)

Panel C – Branding Celebrity Couples (65/1177)
Chair: Shelley Cobb

BFF Celebrity Co-Brands: Fearne and Holly and What Not to Wear
Dr. Alison Winch (Middlesex)

“Brad and Angelina: And Now…Brangelina”: The Linguistic, Economic, and Social Significance of the Blending of Celebrity Couples’ Names
Vanessa Diaz (Michigan)

Uncoupling “Gilbo”: “Flesh and the Devil” and the On/Off Romance of John Gilbert and Greta Garbo
Dr Michael Williams (Southampton)

1130 COFFEE BREAK

1150 KEYNOTE 2 (65/LTC)
Careless People: The Invention of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
Professor Sarah Churchwell (UEA)

1250 LUNCH (65/Cafeteria)

1340 SESSION 2

Panel A – Celebrity Families (65/LTC)
Chair: Maria Pramaggiore

“They’ll make you believe in love”: Gender Politics and Narratives of Fame in E!’s “Reality Star Sitcoms”
Dr. Helen Warner (UEA)

Coupled Cupidity: the Incest Narrative and “The O’Neals”
Prof. Maria Pramaggiore (North Carolina State)

The Smith Brand: Keeping it in the Family
Dr. Julie Lobalzo Wright (Kings College London)

Panel B – Historical Alliances (65/1173)
Chair: Mike Hammond

The Mountbattens: A “Golden Couple” in Search of Power and Responsibility
Prof. Adrian Smith (Southampton)

“We James and Elizabeth Stokes Choose to Exercise the Sword”: Celebrity Couples and Prize Fighting, 1700 – 1730
Benjamin Litherland (Sussex)

Ménage Desmoulins: Fame and Failure in Neo-Revolutionary Fictions
Chloe Stopa-Hunt (Cambridge)

Panel C – Constructing Contemporary Celebrity Coupledom (65/1177)
Chair: Alison Winch

Watching the Throne: Beyonce and Jay-Z: Managing Celebrity Authenticity in the Blogosphere
Dr. Kirsty Fairclough (Salford)

From A Whole New World to You Only Live Once – The Narrative Construction and Deconstruction of “Katie and Peter” in Jordan’s Autobiographies
Dr. Hanna Kyllönen (Sussex)

1510 COFFEE BREAK

1530 SESSION 3

Panel A – Political Couples and the Power of Celebrity (65/1173)
Chair: Neil Ewen

Two for the Price of One: The Clintons as Celebrity Couple
Dr. Ben Morgan (Oxford)

The Glocalization of the Political Celebrity Couple: Kim Jong Un and the
Politics of Reform
David Zeglen (NTNU Trondheim)

Carla Bruni and Nicolas Sarkozy: Trespassing Borders Between Politics and Show Business
Ewa Widlak (University Pompeu Fabra)

Panel B – Performing Coupledom Across Boundaries (65/1173)
Chair: Victoria Kearley

The Welsh Posh and Becks: Charlotte Church and Gavin Henson
Dr. John Harris (Glasgow Caledonian)

Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci: “The Golden Couple of European Cinema”
Dr. Jim Morrissey (Newcastle)

Queering the Celebrity Couple: John Barrowman and Scott Gill
Dr. Gene Melton (North Carolina State)

1700 KEYNOTE 3 (65/LTC)
The Making, Unmaking and Re-Making of Robsten
Professor Diane Negra (UCD)

1800 Close

1930 Dinner