Masculinities in the US Hangout Sitcom by Greg Wolfman - 9781032426211

Masculinities in the US Hangout SitcomAuthor(s): Greg Wolfman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032426211, 978-1032426211\nSynopsis\nMasculinities 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.\n\nWhy 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. \n\nThis book makes an insightful contrib.