Film Stuides Lecture Series / An Affair to Forget: Melancholia in Bromantic Comedy Presented By Tania Modleski May 9th at 4:30
An Affair to Forget: Melancholia in Bromantic Comedy
A Lecture by Tania Modleski
The Film Studies Lecture
Wexner Center, Film/Video Theater
Reception to Follow
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
4:30PM
Tania Modleski, Florence R. Scotto Professor of English at the University of Southern California, examines popular “bromances” and the notion of male weepies in the form of such recent films as Superbad (2007) and Knocked Up (2007).
Modleski is the author of numerous articles and books, including The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory (1988) and Feminism without Women: Culture and Criticism in a Postfeminist Age (1991).
Modleski is the author of numerous articles and books, including The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory (1988) and Feminism without Women: Culture and Criticism in a Postfeminist Age (1991).
Film Studies Lecture Series
Ohio State's Program in Film Studies offers students and the campus community the opportunity to think historically and critically about the entire culture of global cinema. The program partners with the Wexner Center's film/video department on cosponsored lectures and selected screenings.
Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Departments of French and Italian; Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and English; as well as the Film Studies Program, the Humanities Institute, Popular Culture Studies, and the Wexner Center.
