TY - BOOK TI - Reading the bromance: homosocial relationships in film and television T2 - Contemporary approaches to film and media series SN - 9780814338995 AV - PN1995 .R433 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - Detroit, MI PB - Wayne State University Press KW - Masculinity in motion pictures KW - Masculinity on television KW - Homosexuality in motion pictures KW - Homosexuality on television KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; ""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""; 2; b UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1052007&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -