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Informationen zum Autor 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 Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
