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Deconstructing Dads explores a variety of media, including ads, magazines, television, and film, to provide historical and current examples of shifts from the bumbling dad to new types of participatory fathers, questioning just how revolutionary these new images are for families.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Laura Tropp and Janice Kelly
Introduction: Changing Concepts of the Good Dad in Popular Culture
Janice Kelly and Laura Tropp
Section I: The Evolving Dad in Popular Culture
Chapter 1: The Culture of Fatherhood and the Late-Twentieth-Century New Fatherhood Movement: An Interpretive Perspective
Ralph LaRossa
Chapter 2: Who's Your Daddy: Sperm Donation and the Cultural Construction of Fatherhood
Laura Tropp
Chapter 3: Soldiers and Fathers: Archetypal Media Representations of Service, Family, and Parenting
Laura C. Prividera and John W. Howard
Chapter 4: Decoding Comedic Dads: Examining how Media and Real Fathers Measure up with Young Viewers
Janice Kelly
Section II: Dads Across Popular Culture Genres
Chapter 5: Watching the Leisure Gap: Advertising Fatherhood with the Privilege of Play
Peter Schaefer
Chapter 6: Detecting Fatherhood: The "New" Masculinity in Primetime Crime Dramas
Sarah Kornfield
Chapter 7: Magazine Depictions of Fathers' Involvement in Children's Health: A Content Analysis
Justin J. Hendricks, Heidi Steinour, William Marsiglio, and Deepika Kulkarni
Chapter 8: New Paternal Anxieties in Contemporary Horror Cinema: Protecting the Family against (Supernatural) External Attacks
Fernando Gabriel Pagnono Berns and Canela Ailen Rodriguez Fontao
Section III: (Representing Dads)
Chapter 9: From Good Times to Blackish: Media Portrayals of African-American Fathers
Shirley A. Hill and Janice Kelly
Chapter 10: Queering Daddy or Adopting Homonormative Fatherhood?
Lynda Goldstein
11. Paternidad, Masculinidad, and Machismo: Evolving Representations of Mexican/-American Fathers in Film
Leandra H. Hernández
Index
About the Contributors
About the author
Laura Tropp is professor of communication and media arts at Marymount Manhattan College.
Janice Kelly is associate professor of communication arts and sciences at Molloy College.
Summary
Deconstructing Dads explores a variety of media, including ads, magazines, television, and film, to provide historical and current examples of shifts from the bumbling dad to new types of participatory fathers, questioning just how revolutionary these new images are for families.
