Reading the bromance : homosocial relationships in film and television / edited by] Michael DeAngelis. - Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource. - Contemporary approaches to film and media series .

Includes bibliographies and index.

""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 Hosâ€?""; ""3. Fears of a Millennial Masculinity: Screamâ€?s Queer Killers""; ""II. THE CONTEMPORARY CINEMATIC BROMANCE""; ""4. I Love You, Hombre: Y tu mamá tambiÃ(c)n 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 Wonâ€?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 ainâ€?t about your money, bro. Your boy gave you upâ€?: Bromance and Breakup in HBOâ€?s The Wire""; ""Works Cited""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""



9780814338995


Masculinity in motion pictures.
Masculinity on television.
Homosexuality in motion pictures.
Homosexuality on television.


Electronic Books.

PN1995 / .R433 2014