Stella Bruzzi

Bringing Up Daddy

Fatherhood and Masculinity in Postwar Hollywood

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• 2005 edition
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9781844571109
• ISBN-10: 1844571106
• Artikelnr.: 21485834

Autorenporträt

Stella Bruzzi is Professor of Film Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London and her previous publications include Undressing Cinema: Clothing and Identity in the Movies, Routledge 1997; New Documentary: A Critical Introduction, Routledge 2000; Fashion Cultures: Theories, Explorations and Analysis (co-edited), Routledge 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter Headings.
 1. Since You Went Away: Fatherhood, Change and the Second World War.
 2. The Age of the Patriarch: Fathers, Generation and Traditionalism in the 1950s.
 3. Revolution and Feminist Unrest: Fatherhood Under Attack in the 1960s and 1970s.
 4. Out of the Past: The Return of Tradition and Masculinity in the 1980s.
 5. The Next Best Thing: Men in Crisis and the Pluralisation of Fatherhood in the 1990s and 2000s.