Paternidad, Masculinidad, and machismo: evolving representations of Mexican American fathers in film / Leandra H. Hernández. The evolving Dad in popular culture. The culture of fatherhood and the late-Twentieth-Century new fatherhood movement: an interpretive perspective / Ralph LaRossa ; Who's your daddy: sperm donation and the cultural construction of fatherhood / Laura Tropp ; Soldiers and fathers: archetypal media representations of service, family, and parenting / Laura C. Prividera and John W. Howard ; Decoding comedic dads: examining how media and real fathers measure up with young viewers / Janice Kelly -- Dads across popular culture genres. Watching the leisure gap: advertising fatherhood with the privilege of play / Peter Schaefer ; Detecting fatherhood: the "New" masculinity in prime-time crime dramas / Sarah Kornfield ; Magazine depictions of father's involvement in children's health: a content analysis / Justin J. Hendricks, Heidi Steinour, William Marsiglio, and Deepika Kulkarni ; New paternal anxieties in contemporary Horror Cinema: protecting the family against (supernatural) external attacks / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Canela Ailen Rodriguez Fontao -- Representing Dads. From Good Times to Blackish: media portrayals of African American fathers / Shirley A. Hill and Janice Kelly ; Queering daddy or adopting homonormative fatherhood? / Lynda Goldstein ; Paternidad, Masculinidad, and machismo: evolving representations of Mexican American fathers in film / Leandra H. Hernández.
Summary:
Deconstructing Dads is an interdisciplinary collection of essays authored by prominent scholars in the fields of media, sociology, and cultural studies who address how media represent the image of the father in popular culture. This collection explores the history of representation of fathers (like the "bumbling dad") and questions how far popular culture has come in its representation of paternal figures. Each chapter of this book focuses on a different aspect of media, including how advertising creates expectations of play and father, crime shows and the new hero father, and men as paternal figures in horror films. The book also explores how specific groups have been represented as fathers, including gay men as dads and Latino fathers in film.
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