Bringing Up Daddy: Fatherhood and Masculinity in Postwar Hollywood

By Stella Bruzzi

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844571106
• ISBN13: 9781844571109
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"