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Bringing Up Daddy: Fatherhood and Masculinity in Post-War Hollywood

By Stella Bruzzi

Book information

Publisher
British Film Institute
Year
2005
ISBN
9781844571093, 9781844571109, 9781838710309, 9781838714741
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11522913 bytes)
Pages
\242
Time added
2023-05-22 09:55:07

Description

Offering a broad perspective on the Hollywood dad, looking at important Hollywood fathers and discussing films from many genres, this book adopts a multi-faceted theoretical approach, making use of psychoanalysis, sociology and masculinity studies and contextualising the father figure within both Hollywood and American history. Cover Half-title Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Since You Went Away: Masculinity and Change after World War II 2. The Return of the Patriarch: Generation and Traditionalism in the 1950s 3. Revolution and Feminist Unrest: Fatherhood under Attack in the 1960s and 1970s 4. Back to the Future: Nostalgia, Tradition and Masculinity in the 1980s 5. The Next Best Thing: Men in Crisis and the Pluralisation of Fatherhood in the 1990s and 2000s Bibliography Index

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