Reading the Bromance: Homosocial Relationships in Film and Television

by Nick Davis

Explores the popular cultural phenomenon of "bromance" in film and television and its oppositions between homosexual and homosocial behavior.

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...

• 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"