Bringing Up Daddy: Fatherhood and Masculinity in Postwar Hollywood

ISBN-13: 9781844571109 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 234 str.

Stella Bruzzi

Opis

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.