Deconstructing Dads

Changing Images of Fathers in Popular Culture
Herausgeber: Kelly, Janice; Tropp, Laura

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Produktbeschreibung

Deconstructing Dads explores a variety of media, including ads, magazines, television, and film, to provide historical and current examples of shifts from the bumbling dad to new types of participatory fathers, questioning just how revolutionary these new images are for families.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9781498516051
• ISBN-10: 149851605X
• Artikelnr.: 48692174

Autorenporträt

Laura Tropp is professor of communication and media arts at Marymount Manhattan College. Janice Kelly is associate professor of communication arts and sciences at Molloy College.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Laura Tropp and Janice Kelly Introduction: Changing
Concepts of the Good Dad in Popular Culture Janice Kelly and Laura Tropp
Section I: The Evolving Dad in Popular Culture Chapter 1: The Culture of
Fatherhood and the Late-Twentieth-Century New Fatherhood Movement: An
Interpretive Perspective Ralph LaRossa Chapter 2: Who's Your Daddy: Sperm
Donation and the Cultural Construction of Fatherhood Laura Tropp Chapter 3:
Soldiers and Fathers: Archetypal Media Representations of Service, Family,
and Parenting Laura C. Prividera and John W. Howard Chapter 4: Decoding
Comedic Dads: Examining how Media and Real Fathers Measure up with Young
Viewers Janice Kelly Section II: Dads Across Popular Culture Genres Chapter
5: Watching the Leisure Gap: Advertising Fatherhood with the Privilege of
Play Peter Schaefer Chapter 6: Detecting Fatherhood: The "New" Masculinity
in Primetime Crime Dramas Sarah Kornfield Chapter 7: Magazine Depictions of
Fathers' Involvement in Children's Health: A Content Analysis Justin J.
Hendricks, Heidi Steinour, William Marsiglio, and Deepika Kulkarni Chapter
8: New Paternal Anxieties in Contemporary Horror Cinema: Protecting the
Family against (Supernatural) External Attacks Fernando Gabriel Pagnono
Berns and Canela Ailen Rodriguez Fontao Section III: (Representing Dads)
Chapter 9: From Good Times to Blackish: Media Portrayals of
African-American Fathers Shirley A. Hill and Janice Kelly Chapter 10:
Queering Daddy or Adopting Homonormative Fatherhood? Lynda Goldstein 11.
Paternidad, Masculinidad, and Machismo: Evolving Representations of
Mexican/-American Fathers in Film Leandra H. Hernández Index About the
Contributors