Bringing Up Daddy: Fatherhood and Masculinity in Postwar Hollywood

Offering a broad perspective on the Hollywood dad, looking at important Hollywood fathers and discussing films from many genres, this book adopts a multi-faceted theoretical approach, making use of psychoanalysis, sociology and masculinity studies and contextualising the father figure within both Hollywood and American history.

Stella Bruzzi is Professor of Film Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London and her previous publications include Undressing Cinema: Clothing and Identity in the Movies, Routledge 1997; New Documentary: A Critical Introduction, Routledge 2000; Fashion Cultures: Theories, Explorations and Analysis (co-edited), Routledge 2000