Masculinity, Nostalgia And Bomance In The Good Guys

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|Title of article |Two men and a moustache: Masculinity, nostalgia and bromance in The Good Guys| |
|Describe what the text is about, what is the topic? |10% |
|Then, in a sentence or two, what would you say is its overall argument? | |
|The text is talking about the changing of Masculinity male character from 1980 to now, it want to show some | |
|homoeroticism between the hero in parody way to persuade viewers to accept it. Feminism and racism are also| |
|mention on the text. | |
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|The topic is New Masculinity | |
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|The overall argument is about the media use comedy approach to show audience new men masculinity. Media use | |
|comedy approach to show the new man masculinity and by this way it indirectly persuades audience to accept | |
|the new men masculinity. | |
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|Select three brief quotations to convey the argument and flavour of the piece. In a sentence or two, explain|30% |
|each of the quotations. | |
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|The good guys also maintain a (relatively) light touch with any requisite homophobic undertones. (Lavigne, | |
|2013: 73) | |
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|Explanation | |
|The series have showed some homophobic approach in comedy format such as stark does make jokes “you smell | |
|like a man, he complains uncomfortably, hugged by his male informant (Episode 5) | |
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|While the Good guys is not purely a sitcom, its hybrid action/ comedy status allows it to adopt a | |
|transgressive approach to masculine performance, stereotypes that may nonetheless be read as pleasurable. | |
|(Lavigne, 2013: 75) | |
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|Comedy can make everything to

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