Reading the bromance
Subtitle: homosocial relationships in film and television
By: edited by Michael DeAngelis
Series: Contemporary approaches to film and media series
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780814338988
Subjects: Homosexuality on television; Masculinity on television; Homosexuality in motion pictures; Masculinity in motion pictures
Description: In the middle of this century's first decade, "bromance" emerged as a term denoting an emotionally intense bond between straight men. Yet bromance requires an expression of intimacy that always toys with being coded as something other than "straight" male behavior, even as it insists that such intimacy must never be misinterpreted. In Reading the Bromance: Homosocial Relationships in Film and Television, editor Michael DeAngelis has compiled a diverse group of essays that address the rise of this tricky phenomenon and explore the social and cultural functions it serves.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-307) and index.
Table of contents: title: Second bananas and gay chicken: bromancing the rom-com in the fifties and now  -- Jenna Weinman; title: Grumpy Old Men: "bros before hos"  -- Hilary Radner; title: Fears of a Millennial masculinity: Scream's Queer killers  -- David Greven; title: I love you, Hombre: Y tu mamá también as border-crossing bromance  -- Nick Davis; title: From Dostana to bromance: buddies in Hindi commercial cinema reconsidererd  -- Mehili Sen; title: From Batman to I Love You, Man: queer taste, vulgarity, and the bromance as sensibility and film genre  -- Ken Fiel; title: Rad bromance (or I Love You , Man, but we won't be humping on Humpday)  -- Peter Forster; title: Queerness and futurity in Superbad  -- Michael DeAngelis; title: Becoming bromosexual: straight men, gay men, and male bonding on U.S. TV  -- Ron Becker; title: The bromance stunt in House  -- Murray Pomerance; title: "This ain't about your money, bro. Your boy gave you up": bromance and breakup in HBO's The Wire -- Dominic Lennard.