Pure Fatherhood and the Hollywood Family Film

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-71647-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 393 g

Reihe: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

McNulty Norton, Denise

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Hollywood Family Films and the Father Protagonist.- 3. Being A Good Father.- 4. Methodological Considerations.- 5. Choice.- 6. Precarity and Risk.- 7. Responsibility.- 8. Locating Blame.- 9. Voice.- 10. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

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