| Abstrakt: |
This article explores how Generation X men are portrayed in romantic comedies featuring friendships between men, or bromances, including films such as The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up and This is 40, directed by Judd Apatow and Juno, directed by Jason Reitman. Using Judith Butler's theories of gender performativity, this article explores how these films perform competing masculinities and how they at times signify these masculinities by focusing on the body. As such, these films portray Generation X men variously as contradictory, as adaptable (or not) to changing circumstances, as unsure in their relationship with women in a post-feminist world, and at odds with their Baby Boomer predecessors and Millennial successors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
