Cross-Dressing in Taiwanese Dramas: A Reinforcement of Heteronormativity

An examination of temporary cross-dressing in Taiwanese romantic comedy dramas that seeks to analyze how gender, sexuality and romance are portrayed. The following discourses will be used to demonstrate how these dramas often support heteronormative ideals: the absurdity of gender, the utilitarian cross-dresser, the idea of the true (bio)gender, the eroticization of the female body, the bivalent kiss, the Sexuality Crisis Bro trope, \u27gender does not matter\u27 as romance, and relationship dynamics

No Girls Allowed: Television Boys’ Clubs as Resistance to Feminism

This article analyzes the male-only spaces present in four television series, FX’s The Shield, Nip/Tuck , Rescue Me, and ABC’s Boston Legal, which each include a gendered territory as a recurring feature. I argue that these homosocially segregated environments enforce boundaries against women and shelter intense bromance relationships that foreclose romantic relationships of any kind, acting as physical incarnations of troubling retrograde sexual politics and ideologies. I also assert that the “boys’ clubs” in which these narratives take place, enabled and empowered by the aesthetic dimensions of architecture and design, help establish workplace patriarchy as commonplace, reasonable, and benign. This article reveals that in these television boys’ clubs, problematic gender ideologies are protected and celebrated, misogyny is naturalized, and patriarchal beliefs and behaviors legitimized

Fearless Friday: Jerome Clarke

Today is Fearless Friday and we’re honoring the magnificent Jerome Clarke ’17! Originally from Philadelphia, (aka the “city of Bromance”), Jerome is currently a Junior at Gettysburg College and is involved in countless activities and clubs, many of them geared towards social justice. [excerpt

RESEPSI PENGGEMAR VINCENT DAN DESTA TERHADAP KONTEN TAYANGAN BROMANCE DI CHANNEL YOUTUBE VINDES

ABSTRAK RESEPSI PENGGEMAR VINCENT DAN DESTA TERHADAP KONTEN TAYANGAN BROMANCE DI CHANNEL YOUTUBE VINDES Oleh: Muhammad Fachri Noufal 1610862002 Pembimbing: Dr. Elva Ronaning Roem, M.SI Annisa Anindya, S.I.Kom, M.Si Bromance, ikatan erat tanpa hubungan seksual antara dua pria, telah menjadi sangat populer dalam beberapa tahun terakhir. Bromance sering menjadi perdebatan karena adanya pemikiran bahwa bromance tidak sesuai dengan nilai dan budaya yang ada dalam masyarakat. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui sejauh mana penggemar Vincent dan Desta terlibat dan merespons konten tayangan bromance, serta untuk mengetahui resepsi penggemar Vincent dan Desta di Kota Padang terhadap konten tayangan bromance pada channel YouTube VINDES. Alasan peneliti melakukan penelitian di Kota Padang karena budaya yang berkembang di Kota Padang sangat menolak hal-hal yang menyimpang dari ajaran agama. Untuk menganalisis permasalahan ini, penulis menggunakan Teori Resepsi oleh Stuart Hall dimana terdapat tiga kategori, yaitu Posisi The Dominant - Hegemonic Position (Posisi Hegemonik - Dominan), The Negotiated Position (Posisi Negosiasi), dan The Oppositional Position (Posisi Oposisi). Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan deskriptif. Adapun paradigma yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah paradigma konstruktivisme. Dalam penelitian ini, pemilihan informan dilakukan menggunakan teknik purposive dengan jumlah informan lima orang. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan cara observasi, wawancara, dokumentasi dengan teknik analisis data dari Miles dan Huberman. Penelitian ini menemukan, bahwa keakraban yang terjalin antara Vincent dan Desta dalam channel YouTube VINDES merupakan keakraban yang wajar dilihat dalam sebuah hubungan bromance dimana dalam menerima konten bromance pada channel YouTube VINDES, posisi dominan dari informan menerima dan menyetujui pesan yang disampaikan. Mereka menyadari bahwa konten-konten bromance yang diperlihatkan Vincent dan Desta sebuah kedekatan di antara dua orang sahabat yang begitu erat dan melihat sebuah hubungan bromance melalui interaksi, humor, dan chemistry yang tulus. Sementara informan yang berada di pihak negosiasi, menjandikan edukasi serta banyaknya bintang tamu baru yang membuatnya tetap menjadi penggemar dan pengikut pada channel YouTube VINDES. Kata Kunci: Bromance, Resepsi, VINDES

Boy Melodrama: Genre Negotiations and Gender-Bending in the Supernatural Series

For years Supernatural (CW, 2005–) has gained the status of a cult series as well as one of the most passionate and devoted fandoms that has ever emerged. Even though the main concept of the series indicates that Supernatural should appeal predominantly to young male viewers, in fact, the fandom is dominated by young women who are the target audience of the CW network. My research is couched in fan studies and audience studies methodological perspectives as it is impossible to understand the phenomenon of Supernatural without referring to its fandom and fan practices. However, it focuses on the series’ structure in order to explain how this structure enables Supernatural’s viewers to challenge and revise prevailing gender roles. Supernatural combines elements of divergent TV genres, traditionally associated with either male or female audiences. It opens up to gender hybridity through genre hybridity: by interweaving melodrama with horror and other “masculine” genres the show provides a fascinating example of Gothic television which questions any simplistic gender identifications

Unmaking him : Lee Daniels' Empire and the potential black masculine

This paper uses Lee Daniels’ hit show Empire to examine the relationship between two fictional television brothers- Jamal and Hakeem Lyon. In examining this relationship, I employ black feminist and black queer theory to interrogate the ways in which Lee Daniels’ particular representation lends to an expansion of current notions of black masculinity within the quotidian. I argue that through re-representing the ways in which black men interact and are intimate, Empire helps to unmake ideals of black masculinity steeped in stabilizing patriarchy and moves to expand what and how black men can be. Through imagining that the promise of black feminist and black queer theory is the ability to remake self outside of the normative, this project moves in the vein of such to imagine what potential alternative black masculinities look like.African and African Diaspora Studie

American Masculinity and Homosocial Behavior in the Bromance Era

This study examines and reflects upon the current “bromance” culture that has emerged in American society and aims to conceptualize how media texts relate to masculine hegemony. Attention to current media portrayals, codes of conduct, rituals, homosocial interaction, and constructions of masculinity in American culture is essential for the evaluation of the current era of American masculinity. Mediated portrayals present an ironic position on male closeness, dictate how men should behave towards women and other men, and create real life situations in which these mediated expectations are fostered and put into practice. Textual analyses of the films Superbad and I Love You, Man and the television series How I Met Your Mother were conducted, as well as an ethnographic study of cult film audiences of The Room to better understand manifestations of homosocial environments in mediated texts and in real life settings

Celebrity Bromances

This comprehensive work presents a thorough exploration of celebrity ‘bromances,’ interrogating how bromances are portrayed in media and consumed by audiences to examine themes of celebrity persona, performativity, and authenticity. The authors examine how the performance of intimate male friendships functions within broadly ‘Western’ celebrity culture from three primary perspectives: construction of persona; interactions with audiences and fans; and commodification. Case studies from film and television are used to illustrate the argument that, regardless of their authenticity (real or staged), bromances are useful for engaging audiences and creating an extension of entertainment beyond the film the actors originally sought to promote. The first truly interdisciplinary study of its kind, this book will be of great interest to scholars and students of communications, advertising, marketing, Internet studies, media, journalism, cultural studies, and film and television