March 13: Michael DeAngelis on Reading the Bromance
Please join the Chicago Film Seminar at 6:30 pm on Thursday, March 13 to welcome Michael DeAngelis (DePaul) for his talk, " Reading the Bromance." Nick Davis ( Northwestern) will provide the response. The CFS will be held at DePaul's Loop Campus in the Daley Building at 14 E. Jackson Blvd., Room LL 102, using the State St. entrance located at 247 S. State . Thursday, March 13 at 6:30pm Michael DeAngelis , DePaul "Reading the Bromance" Respondent : Nick Davis , Northwestern DeAngelis describes his talk as follows: “Bromance” has come to denote an emotionally intense bond between presumably straight males who demonstrate an openness to intimacy that they neither regard, acknowledge, avow, nor express sexually. This paper attempts to account for the widespread cultural popularity of the bromance phenomenon in popular media during the past decade, discerning what is thematically and formally unique about bromanc...