Pure Fatherhood and the Hollywood Family Film

Auteur: Denise McNulty Norton
Langue: Anglais
Auteur: Denise McNulty Norton
  • en
  • Couverture rigide
  • 9783030716479
  • 21 juillet 2021
  • 198 pages
Toutes les spécifications de l'article

Résumé

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.



“This is a welcome addition to the growing body of academic work on the important yet under-studied area of mediated fatherhood, and within that, to scholarship that critically interrogates the representation of fathers in film. Adopting sociological approaches, McNulty Norton makes a compelling argument to the effect that the figure of the failing father in Hollywood family films of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries is a structuring trope of the genre, and that this is symptomatic of that period’s ‘re-gendering’ of parenthood.”
—Hannah Hamad, Senior Lecturer of Media and Communication, Cardiff University, UK

“Drawing on detailed analysis of Hollywood films from the 1990s onwards, this engaging book presents a convincing and nuanced argument for the increasing value of authentic father-child relationship on screen: one that relies on a re-gendering rather than de-gendering of parenting.”
—Esther Dermott, Professor and Head of Schoolfor Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UK

“This book throws new light on the debate over a crisis in the nature of contemporary Western fatherhood. McNulty Norton brings a penetrating sociological eye to the irresolvable tensions in constructions of fatherhood in film, and illuminates the shifts to statuses of mother and child that are bound up in these portrayals.”
—Rosalind Edwards, Professor of Sociology, University of Southampton, UK

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.

Denise McNulty Norton is an independent researcher. Her research interests include the sociology of free will and the discursive construction of family.



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.

Spécifications produit

Contenu

Langue
en
Version
Couverture rigide
Date de sortie initiale
21 juillet 2021
Nombre de pages
198

Personnes impliquées

Auteur principal
Denise McNulty Norton
Editeur principal
Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Informations sur le fabricant

Informations sur le fabricant
Les informations du fabricant ne sont actuellement pas disponibles

Autres spécifications

Hauteur de l'emballage
210 mm
Largeur d'emballage
148 mm
Largeur du produit
148 mm
Livre d‘étude
Non
Longueur d'emballage
210 mm
Longueur du produit
210 mm
Poids de l'emballage
0.43 kg
Édition
1st ed. 2021

EAN

EAN
9783030716479

Sécurité des produits

Opérateur économique responsable dans l’UE
Afficher les données

Vous trouverez cet article :

Catégories
Langue
Anglais
Livre, ebook ou livre audio ?
Livre
Disponibilité
Disponible à l'adresse suivante

Commentaires

Pas encore d'avis
Comment vérifions-nous et publions-nous des avis ? Comment vérifions-nous et publions-nous des avis ?

Négatif, positif, neutre ; quel qu'il soit, nous publions chaque avis. Nous vérifions d'abord s'il répond aux conditions et s'il est authentique. Nous vérifions également qu'il ait été écrit par quelqu'un qui a acheté l'article via bol.com. Le cas échéant, nous le mentionnons. Les contrôles sont automatiques, même si des collaborateurs y jettent parfois manuellement un oeil. Bol. n'offre pas de paiement pour ces avis. Si un évaluateur a reçu une compensation d'un tiers, cette information est indiquée dans l'évaluation elle-même.

Choisissez la version souhaitée
Choisissez votre version
livre numérique €127,99 Broché €125,00 Couverture rigide €125,00
Informations sur les prix et commande
Le prix de ce produit est de 125 euros.
Attendu dans environ 3 semaines
Vendu par bol
Ajouter au panier
  • Livraison comprise avec bol
  • Retrait possible dans un point-relais bol
  • 30 jours de réflexion et retour gratuit
  • Garantie légale via bol
  • Service client 24h/24

D'autres ont aussi regardé

  •
    Fathers and Sons in Cinema
    €32,99
  • Postfeminism and Paternity in Contemporary Us Film
    €53,99
  • The Graphic Lives of Fathers
    €85,99
  • Intimate Fatherhood
    €174,00
  • Fatherhood and Love
    €84,99
  • Fathers and Sons
    €51,99
  • Fathering Masculinity & The Embodiment O
    €95,69
  • Fatherhood in the Borderlands
    €28,99
  • Men, Fathering and the Gender Trap
    €85,99
Voir la liste complète