Tania Modleski An Affair to Forget: Melancholia in Bromantic Comedy

Tania Modleski, Florence R. Scott 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).

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.