Bringing Up Daddy

Fatherhood and Masculinity in Postwar Hollywood

• Author(s): Stella Bruzzi,
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Pages: 234
• ISBN_10: 183871474X
  ISBN_13: 9781838714741
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism , Performing Arts / General ,

Description:... 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.