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Reading the bromance : homosocial relationships in film and television /
This book discusses how the concept of "bromance" emerged as a term denoting an emotionally intense bond between straight men. The book analyses films ranging from I Love You, Man to Superbad, Humpday, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, The Hangover, and the Jackass films, and include st...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Detroit, MI :
Wayne State University Press,
2014.
©2014 |
| Colección: | Contemporary approaches to film and media series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Cover""; ""Half-title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""I. ANTICIPATING THE BROMANTIC TURN""; ""1. Second Bananas and Gay Chicken: Bromancing the Rom-Com in the Fifties and Now""; ""2. Grumpy Old Men: “Bros Before Hos�""; ""3. Fears of a Millennial Masculinity: Scream�s Queer Killers""; ""II. THE CONTEMPORARY CINEMATIC BROMANCE""; ""4. I Love You, Hombre: Y tu mamá también as Border-Crossing Bromance""; ""5. From Dostana to Bromance: Buddies in Hindi Commercial Cinema Reconsidered""
- ""6. From Batman to I Love You, Man: Queer Taste, Vulgarity, and the Bromance as Sensibility and Film Genre""""7. Rad Bromance (or I Love You, Man, but We Won�t Be Humping on Humpday)""; ""8. Queerness and Futurity in Superbad""; ""III. BROMANCE AND TELEVISION NARRATIVE""; ""9. Becoming Bromosexual: Straight Men, Gay Men, and Male Bonding on U.S. TV""; ""10. The Bromance Stunt in House""; ""11. “This ain�t about your money, bro. Your boy gave you up�: Bromance and Breakup in HBO�s The Wire""; ""Works Cited""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""