Keywords: bromance, homosocial, homohysteria, masculinity, men, stoicism, suicide. The Bromance: Undergraduate Male Friendships and the Expansion of Contemporary

We document the friendship practices of men who are mostly straight,“bisexual-leaning, ” and mostly gay, and develop understanding of bromance as a term that has extended to cross …

While the romantic comedy usually casts a guy like Matthew McConaughey to take his shirt off in the lead actor role, the bromance casts guys who are pretty much like 85% of the guy population.

We seek to know how men conceptualize a bromance, how a bromance differs from a friendship, and the roles that physical and emotional intimacy play in these classifications.

bromance is expressed as emotionally rivalling the benefits of heterosexual romance. Our participants mostly determined that a bromance offered them ated emotional stability, …

‘From Dostana to Bromance: Buddies in Hindi Commercial Cinema Reconsidered’ takes as its study the dostana genre, looki g at its development from the 1970s to the present day. …

term with cultural resonance among men of their gener-ation. As one of the participants in this study describes, “a bromance is having a best f iend and it’s seen like a marriage; like a …