Fathers on Film - Paternity and Masculinity in 1990s Hollywood (Paperback)

The father is an enduring and iconic figure in Hollywood cinema and in the 1990s, narratives of redemptive fatherhood featured prominently in some of the decade's most popular films like Kindergarten Cop (1990), Mrs Doubtfire (1993), Jurassic Park (1993) and The Lion King (1994). Interpreting such films through the lens of feminist and queer theory, along with masculinity studies and psychoanalysis, Katie Barnett offers an insightful and interdisciplinary discussion of cinematic fathers. Barnett reveals that the father figure is often portrayed as one that invests in and is part of a discourse of reproductive futurism. This plays out across a range of genres including rom-coms, fantasy, sci-fi, drama, and disaster. By exploring both blockbuster and more low-budget films of the 1990s, Barnett explores the figure of the father against the crisis of masculinity in the United States, and indeed more globally, at this time.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Library of Gender and Popular Culture
Release date:	August 2021
Authors:	Katie Barnett
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-1-350-19160-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Men's studies
LSN:	1-350-19160-4
Barcode:	9781350191600

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