Celebrity Bromances: Constructing, Interpreting and Utilising Personas

ISBN-13: 9780367553982 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 148 str.

Jackie Raphael

Opis

This book 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.

Recenzje

Celebrity Bromance is a highly insightful exploration of the way male stars are coupled, homoeroticised, and commodified in contemporary popular culture. Lam and Raphael provide us with a wonderful set of case studies, drawing upon the threads of star and persona studies to theorise what these relationships mean to gender and sexuality, branding and commercial power. In this timely book we learn about the 'bromance capital' between such leading figures as Matt Damon and Jimmy Kimmel, Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, and James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender. A fascinating, critically astute and pleasurable engagement with male-to-male stardom.

Sean Redmond, Professor of Screen and Design, Deakin University

Spis treści

1. Introduction to Celebrity Bromances: Constructing, Interpreting and Utilising Personas 2. Bromance History, Identifying Traits and the Markers of Authenticity 3. Constructing Bromances 4. ‘Utilising’ Bromances 5. Beyond Bromances: Comradery Capital 6. Conclusions and Reflections on Celebrity Bromances