Bringing up Daddy : Fatherhood and Masculinity in Postwar Hollywood

by Bruzzi

• ISBN13: 9781844571093
• ISBN10: 1844571092
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-02-03
• Publisher: British Film Inst

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vi
Introduction	vii
Since You Went Away: Masculinity and Change after World War II	1	(36)
The Return of the Patriarch: Generation and Traditionalism in the 1950s	37	(40)
Revolution and Feminist Unrest: Fatherhood under Attack in the 1960s and 1970s	77	(38)
Back to the Future: Nostalgia, Tradition and Masculinity in the 1980s	115	(38)
The Next Best Thing: Men in Crisis and the Pluralisation of Fatherhood in the 1990s and 2000s	153	(40)
Bibliography	193	(16)
Index	209