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OverviewA brisk, humorous collection of essays that redefines the mythos of fatherhood depicted in film, television, and video games. What do dads tell us about the world? Not your real dad, but dads in general. Dads are everywhere. Lurking in our movies, television shows, and video games. Spouting homespun wisdom and atrocious jokes, wallowing in might-have-beens and back-in-my-days, or rigidly defending the status quo. These fictional dads fuel a myth of fatherhood. What is that myth trying to tell us? And what is it trying to sell us? Dad Bod is a clever, riveting collection of essays about father figures in popular culture. From Gandalf to Homer Simpson, Die Hard to The Mandalorian, these essays unpack the tropes that inform our collective image of fatherhood. Follow Cian Cruise, newly minted dad, as he riffs on the stereotypes and lore of fatherhood, traces a contemporary art history of dads in popular culture, and journeys to the heart of dadness to become a better father. A RARE MACHINES BOOK Full Product DetailsAuthor: Cian CruisePublisher: Dundurn Group Ltd Imprint: Dundurn Group Ltd Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.319kg ISBN: 9781459749474ISBN 10: 1459749472 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 18 August 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents Prologue Part One: Foundations By Way of Introduction 404 Dad Not Found Foreword, Afterword, Side-to-Sideword Part Two: The Good, the Dad, and the Ugly The Absent Heart of Robin Williams Rambo’s Big Tantrum The Sitcom Dad The Distant Driven Dad Major Dad A Litany of Bad Dads Part Three: Tales of Adventure ’Ware the Wanderer Enter Pappas The Wanderers Return Interlude: Gandalf vs. Obi-Wan Dads of Destiny Part Four: Children’s Television Humbled by a Dog Part Five: The End Die, Die-Hard, or the Die Hard Dilemma Down for the Count A Dad BecomingReviewsCian Cruise is a great writer and a great father, and a never-ending source of interesting insights. Dad Bod takes those qualities and mashes them up with the dads you know from popular culture, to figure out what it means to be a father.-- Misha Glouberman, co-author of The Chairs Are Where The People Go Funny, perceptive, and thoughtful, Cian Cruise's Dad Bod is constantly curious about the pop culture artifacts it interrogates. Plus, he extracts parenting advice from First Blood, which no book has ever done before.-- Naben Ruthnum, author of A Hero of Our Time Cian Cruise is a great writer and a great father, and a never-ending source of interesting insights. Dad Bod takes those qualities and mashes them up with the dads you know from popular culture, to figure out what it means to be a father.-- Misha Glouberman, co-author of The Chairs Are Where The People Go Cian Cruise is a great writer and a great father, and a never-ending source of interesting insights. Dad Bod takes those qualities and mashes them up with the dads you know from popular culture, to figure out what it means to be a father.-- Misha Glouberman Cian Cruise's irreverent exploration of fatherhood in pop-culture shrouds a cosmic reverence for the teaching it contains, whether that's in video games, television, or movies. The religious attention that the essays of Dad Bod bring to beloved media properties provide new insight not only to their subjects but also to human life and all of its deepest mysteries.-- Andre Babyn Funny, perceptive, and thoughtful, Cian Cruise's Dad Bod is constantly curious about the pop culture artifacts it interrogates. Plus, he extracts parenting advice from First Blood, which no book has ever done before.-- Naben Ruthnum, author of A Hero of Our Time Author InformationCian Cruise has a degree in film studies and philosophy and works as a freelance writer, strategist, and consultant. His cultural criticism has appeared in Hazlitt, Maisonneuve, Playboy, Vulture, and Little Brother Magazine. Cian lives in Almonte, Ontario. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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