Bringing Up Daddy: Fatherhood and Masculinity in Postwar Hollywood

by Bruzzi, Stella

• ISBN13: 9781844571109
• ISBN10: 1844571106
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-03
• Publisher: British Film Inst

Summary

The father is one of the central figures of Hollywood narrative. Despite this, this is the first book to examine cinematic representations of the father. Bringing Up Daddy offers a broad perspective on the Hollywood dad looking at important Hollywood fathers from World War II to the present and discusses films from a variety of genres.

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