Donald Unger

Men Can: The Changing Image and Reality of Fatherhood in America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How fatherhood has evolved, as shown through stories of real-life families, and representations of fathers in film, television, and advertising

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781439900000
• ISBN-10: 1439900000
• Artikelnr.: 28889899

Autorenporträt

Donald N.S. Unger is a Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments 
Introduction: When You Comin' Home, Dad? 
1. Ángel Nieto: The Leading Edge of Change 
2. The Problem of Language: Can Fathers Mother? 
3. Tom Andrejev: The Matter of Trust 
4. TV Dads: One Step Forward and Two Steps Back 
5. Darryl Smith: Recovering Our Own Fathers 
6. Poppins versus Kramer: Dad, You Have Really Changed! 
7. Ronnie Huang: What If We Don't Put Him in Day Care? 
8. TV Commercials and the New American Family 
9. Kevin Knussman: The Trooper Dad 
Epilogue 
Afterword 
Appendix A: Comparative Word Frequency (2006 and 2009) 
Appendix B: AT&T Wireless Commercial, "Business Trip," Shot Sequence
(Approximate) 
Appendix C: Comparative Word Frequency (2004 and 2006) 
Notes 
Selected Bibliography 
Index