书目名称 | Pure Fatherhood and the Hollywood Family Film |
编辑 | Denise McNulty Norton |
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概述 | Features innovative analysis of fathers in forty Hollywood family films.Applies post-structuralist theory to extend sociological understanding of the contradictory cultural expectations of contemporar |
丛书名称 | Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life |
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描述 | .This book maps father failure and redemption through three decades of Hollywood family films, revealing how libertarian notions that align agency with autonomy lead to new conflicts for the contemporary father. The films find resolution to these conflicts through a re-gendering of parenting as relationship. In their creation of a ‘pure’ fatherhood that is valorised as authentic for its lack of parental responsibilities, the films serve to challenge the perception that fathering enacted outside the nuclear family structure is fragile. McNulty Norton finds in the films a new essentialism that secures the pure relationship to the biological father, reinforcing his position in the face of changing family forms.. |
出版日期 | Book 2021 |
关键词 | deadbeat dad; father-child relationship; agentic child; nature vs; nurture; motherhood; intimacy |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71648-6 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-71650-9 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-71648-6Series ISSN 2731-6440 Series E-ISSN 2731-6459 |
issn_series | 2731-6440 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |