Stella Bruzzi

Bringing Up Daddy (eBook, ePUB)

Fatherhood and Masculinity in Postwar Hollywood

• Format: ePub

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 UK
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781838714734
• Artikelnr.: 59861916

Autorenporträt

STELLA BRUZZI is Professor in the Department ofEnglish at University College London, UK. She is the author of BringingUp Daddy: Fatherhood and Masculinity in Post-war Hollywood (BFI 2005) and NewDocumentary: A Critical Introduction (Second edition, 2006).

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.