Bringing Up Daddy - Fatherhood and Masculinity in Postwar Hollywood

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.

Product details

• Authors: Stella Bruzzi
• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.12.2005
• EAN: 9781844571093
• ISBN: 978-1-84457-109-3
• No. of pages: 234
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV