Description
The father is one of the central figures of Hollywood narrative. The first book to examine cinematic representations of the father,
Bringing Up Daddy offers a broad perspective on the Hollywood dad by looking at important Hollywood fathers from World War II to the present. The book looks at films decade by decade and adopts a multi-faceted theoretical approach, making use of psychoanalysis, sociology and masculinity studies and contextualizing the father figure within both Hollywood and American history. Key films include:
Since You Went Away, Teresa, The Search, Father of the Bride, Rebel Without a Cause, Giant, Home from the Hill, Cape Fear, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jaws, The Great Santini, Kramer vs. Kramer, Ordinary People, Die Hard, Terminator, Three Men and a Baby, Boyz n the Hood, Magnolia, Happiness, and
American Beauty. In its treatment of the father, this unique study discusses why the father is such a seminal character in so many narratives and what he has come to symbolize and represent.
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