Pops in pop culture : fatherhood, masculinity, and the new man / edited by Elizabeth Podnieks.
"The definitions of fatherhood have shifted in the twenty-first century as paternal subjectivities, conflicts, and desires have registered in new ways in the contemporary family. This collection investigates these sites of change through various lenses from popular culture--film, television, bl...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY :
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2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: pops in pop context / Elizabeth Podnieks
- Self-defining dads: autobiography, paternal lessons, and narrative performance. Pappahandbooks: guidebooks for dads in twenty-first century Sweden / Helena Wahlstrom Henriksson
- Fatherhood, feminism, and failure in Louis C.K.'s comedy / Peter C. Kunze
- "Daddy time all the time": representations of involved fatherhood in contemporary dadoirs / Elizabeth Podnieks
- Daddyblogs know best: histories of fatherhood in the cyber age / May Friedman
- "Real" men: brawn, power, and protection. Ads and dads: tv commercials and contemporary attitudes toward fatherhood / Kristi Rowan Humphreys
- Hard bodies, soft hearts: mixed-race men as muscular daddies in the films of Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson / Andrea Schofield
- Contemporary crime fighting dads: negotiating masculinity and fathering in 24 and Castle / Christy Ebert Vrtis
- Tale of two fathers: authenticating fatherhood in Quantic dream's Heavy rain: the origami killer and naughty dog's The last of us / Melvin G. Hill
- Economics and emotions: providers, pals, and nurturers. Breaking dad: re-imagining post-war models of American fatherhood in Breaking bad / Heath A. Diehl
- Masculinity, subjectivities and caregiving in the British press: the case of the stay-at-home father / Abigail Locke
- A sentimental fathering model: Alexander McCall Smith's vision for nurturing paternity in The no. 1 ladies' detective agency series / Nicole l. Willey
- Modern fathers in modern family: the impact of generational differences on fatherhood styles / Kathryn Pallister.