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.

• | Author: Stella Bruzzi
• | Publisher: British Film Institute
• | Publication Date: Feb 03, 2006
• | Number of Pages: 234 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1844571106
• | ISBN-13: 9781844571109