Nothing Suits Me like a Suit
Performing Masculinity in How I Met Your Mother
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5681994 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lauren Jade Thompson, Lauren Thompson (0000-0002-6455-4980, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 21-36 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Studies in Television The International Journal of Television Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-6020 • E-ISSN: 1749-6039 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.7227/cst.10.2.3 |
| OpenAlex | W2424447662 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 7 |
This article uses How I Met Your Mother (2005-14) as a case study to explore a new emphasis within postfeminist media texts on exposing the constructed and conflicted nature of masculinity. This article examines the central male characters as examples of dominant, residual and emergent formations of masculine identity. It examines how performance, narrative and production design produce these highly differentiated versions of masculinity. It explores the show's comparative presentation of two versions of single masculinity, and examines what application the residual cultural formations of 'bachelor' and 'spinster' might have in understanding gendered representations of singleness
Aesthetics · Art · Bachelor · Epistemology · Literature · Masculinity · Narrative · Nothing · Political science · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |