Masculinities in the US Hangout Sitcom examines how four sitcoms - Friends, How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, and New Girl - mediate the tense relationship between neoliberalism and masculinities.
Masculinities in the US Hangout Sitcom examines how four sitcoms - Friends, How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, and New Girl - mediate the tense relationship between neoliberalism and masculinities.
Greg Wolfman is an independent researcher who received his PhD from the University of Huddersfield, UK, in 2020. He is primarily interested in the confluence of and tension between neoliberalism and masculinity, and particularly how this is reflected in cultural forms. His work has been published in NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies, and the Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities.
Inhaltsangabe
1. The hangout sitcom: Could it be more culturally relevant? 2. A brief historiography of US sitcom masculinities 3. A typology of straight white men in the hangout sitcom 4. Bromantic comedy: Male homosociality, heterosexuality, and relationships 5. Breaking the circle: Challenging whiteness in the hangout sitcom's surrogate families 6. First as farce, then as tragedy: Failing and flailing neoliberal men in the UK's hangout(-style) sitcoms 7. Masculinities after the hangout sitcom
1. The hangout sitcom: Could it be more culturally relevant? 2. A brief historiography of US sitcom masculinities 3. A typology of straight white men in the hangout sitcom 4. Bromantic comedy: Male homosociality, heterosexuality, and relationships 5. Breaking the circle: Challenging whiteness in the hangout sitcom's surrogate families 6. First as farce, then as tragedy: Failing and flailing neoliberal men in the UK's hangout(-style) sitcoms 7. Masculinities after the hangout sitcom
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