Pure fatherhood and the Hollywood family film / Denise McNulty Norton.
Norton, Denise McNulty.
2021
PN1995.9.F42
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Title Pure fatherhood and the Hollywood family film / Denise McNulty Norton.
Author Norton, Denise McNulty.
ISBN 9783030716486 (electronic bk.)
3030716481 (electronic bk.)
3030716473
9783030716479
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71648-6
Imprint Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-71648-6 doi
Call Number PN1995.9.F42
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.43653
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life.
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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.

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