"let's hug it out, bitch": HBO's Entourage, masculinity in crisis, and the value of audience studies

Television and New Media

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 403-421

  Click, Melissa A ^a   Holladay, Holly Willson ^a   Lee, Hyunji ^a   Kristiansen, Lars J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b MONMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

audience; cultural politics; gender; masculinity; qualitative methods; television

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930591854     PISSN: 15274764     EISSN: 15528316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1527476414532140     Document Type: Review

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