Reading the Bromance: Homosocial Relationships in Film and Television

by Nick Davis

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814338984
• ISBN13: 9780814338988
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"