The 40-Year-Old Virgin
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Friends with Benefits: Neoliberalism and Heteronormativity in the Bromance Film
Critical readings of the bromance film genre – as typified by Judd Apatow’s The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) – often focus on how such films ostensibly reconfigure the tropes of the romantic comedy away from privileging heterosexual coupledom and towards platonic male friendship. The romantic comedy has long been identified as an agent of neoliberal ideology… Continue reading