Masculinities in the US Hangout Sitcom
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Masculinities in the US Hangout Sitcom

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Masculinities in the US Hangout Sitcom

About this book

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.

Why is Ross in Friends so worried about everything? This book argues that the men in Friends and similar shows that follow young, straight, mostly white twentysomethings in major US cities are beset by a range of social and economic concerns about their place in society. Using multiple methods of analysis to examine these shows – including conjunctural analysis, historiographical method, and critical discourse analysis – a range of topics in these shows are examined, from sexuality through to homosociality, from race through to nationality.

This book makes an insightful contribution to work on the television sitcom and on neoliberalism in culture and society. It will be an ideal resource for upper-level undergraduates, post-graduates, and researchers in a range of disciplines including television and screen studies, critical studies on men and masculinities and humor studies.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781032426211
eBook ISBN
9781000902747
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. 1 The hangout sitcom: Could it be more culturally relevant?
  9. 2 A brief historiography of US sitcom masculinities
  10. 3 A typology of straight white men in the hangout sitcom
  11. 4 Bromantic comedy: Male homosociality, heterosexuality, and relationships
  12. 5 Breaking the circle: Challenging whiteness in the hangout sitcom’s surrogate families
  13. 6 First as farce, then as tragedy: Failing and flailing neoliberal men in the UK’s hangout(-style) sitcoms
  14. 7 Masculinities after the hangout sitcom
  15. Index