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OverviewIn the twenty-first century, fatherhood is shifting from simply being a sidekick in the parental team to taking center stage with new expectations of involvement and caretaking. The social expectations of fathers start even before the children are born. Mr. Mom is now displaced with fathers who don’t think of themselves as babysitting their own children, but as central decision makers, along with mothers, as parents. Deconstructing Dads: Changing Images of Fathers in Popular Culture is an interdisciplinary edited 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” to question and challenge 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 changing definitions of fatherhood by looking at such subjects as how the media represents sperm donation as complicating the definition of father and how specific groups have been represented as fathers, including gay men as dads and Latino fathers in film. This collection examines the media’s depiction of the “good” father to study how it both challenges and reshapes the ways in which we think of family, masculinity, and gender roles. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Laura Tropp , Janice Kelly , Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns , Canela Ailen Rodriguez FontaoPublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books Dimensions: Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.80cm Weight: 0.594kg ISBN: 9781498516037ISBN 10: 1498516033 Pages: 308 Publication Date: 24 December 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Laura Tropp and Janice Kelly Introduction: Changing Concepts of the Good Dad in Popular Culture Janice Kelly and Laura Tropp Section I: The Evolving Dad in Popular Culture Chapter 1: The Culture of Fatherhood and the Late-Twentieth-Century New Fatherhood Movement: An Interpretive Perspective Ralph LaRossa Chapter 2: Who’s Your Daddy: Sperm Donation and the Cultural Construction of Fatherhood Laura Tropp Chapter 3: Soldiers and Fathers: Archetypal Media Representations of Service, Family, and Parenting Laura C. Prividera and John W. Howard Chapter 4: Decoding Comedic Dads: Examining how Media and Real Fathers Measure up with Young Viewers Janice Kelly Section II: Dads Across Popular Culture Genres Chapter 5: Watching the Leisure Gap: Advertising Fatherhood with the Privilege of Play Peter Schaefer Chapter 6: Detecting Fatherhood: The “New” Masculinity in Primetime Crime Dramas Sarah Kornfield Chapter 7: Magazine Depictions of Fathers’ Involvement in Children’s Health: A Content Analysis Justin J. Hendricks, Heidi Steinour, William Marsiglio, and Deepika Kulkarni Chapter 8: New Paternal Anxieties in Contemporary Horror Cinema: Protecting the Family against (Supernatural) External Attacks Fernando Gabriel Pagnono Berns and Canela Ailen Rodriguez Fontao Section III: (Representing Dads) Chapter 9: From Good Times to Blackish: Media Portrayals of African-American Fathers Shirley A. Hill and Janice Kelly Chapter 10: Queering Daddy or Adopting Homonormative Fatherhood? Lynda Goldstein 11. Paternidad, Masculinidad, and Machismo: Evolving Representations of Mexican/-American Fathers in Film Leandra H. Hernández Index About the ContributorsReviewsCommunication scholars Tropp and Kelly have compiled an important, in-depth collection that explores the ways in which contemporary media representations of fatherhood cultivate expectations about family life, fuel misconceptions about parenting, and promote complicated and contentious ideas about what being a father means. Contributors use literature reviews, audience studies, and content and textual analyses to examine topics such as the culture of fatherhood and the conduct of fathers; sperm donation and lineage; soldiers, military service, and family commitment; stay-at-home dads, caretaking, leisure, and manhood; masculinity in crime dramas and horror films; increased, yet domesticated, portrayals of gay fathers; and how representations of African American fathers in sitcoms and Mexican American fathers on film disrupt and perpetuate stereotypes about these men and groups. Taken together, the essays illustrate striking contradictions in representations of fathers by showing how these representations are progressive, subversive, and hopeful and also restrictive and harmful, among the latter especially those that offer tidy, uncomplicated depictions of fatherhood; reify patriarchy; and perpetuate traditional attitudes toward gender and parenting. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers. * CHOICE * “Deconstructing Dads: Changing Images of Fathers in Popular Culture is a needed corrective to a lack of previous research on media and fatherhood, and a boon to those studying masculinity and representation. It's well written, well organized, and examines mediated representations of modern fatherhood in ways that break new ground and re-examine old approaches critically. Highly recommended.” -- Brian Cogan, Molloy College, author of Deconstructing South Park: Critical Examinations of Animated Transgression Communication scholars Tropp and Kelly have compiled an important, in-depth collection that explores the ways in which contemporary media representations of fatherhood cultivate expectations about family life, fuel misconceptions about parenting, and promote complicated and contentious ideas about what being a father means. Contributors use literature reviews, audience studies, and content and textual analyses to examine topics such as the culture of fatherhood and the conduct of fathers; sperm donation and lineage; soldiers, military service, and family commitment; stay-at-home dads, caretaking, leisure, and manhood; masculinity in crime dramas and horror films; increased, yet domesticated, portrayals of gay fathers; and how representations of African American fathers in sitcoms and Mexican American fathers on film disrupt and perpetuate stereotypes about these men and groups. Taken together, the essays illustrate striking contradictions in representations of fathers by showing how these representations are progressive, subversive, and hopeful and also restrictive and harmful, among the latter especially those that offer tidy, uncomplicated depictions of fatherhood; reify patriarchy; and perpetuate traditional attitudes toward gender and parenting. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers. CHOICE Deconstructing Dads: Changing Images of Fathers in Popular Culture is a needed corrective to a lack of previous research on media and fatherhood, and a boon to those studying masculinity and representation. It's well written, well organized, and examines mediated representations of modern fatherhood in ways that break new ground and re-examine old approaches critically. Highly recommended. -- Brian Cogan, Molloy College, author of Deconstructing South Park: Critical Examinations of Animated Transgression Deconstructing Dads: Changing Images of Fathers in Popular Culture is a needed corrective to a lack of previous research on media and fatherhood, and a boon to those studying masculinity and representation. It's well written, well organized, and examines mediated representations of modern fatherhood in ways that break new ground and re-examine old approaches critically. Highly recommended. -- Brian Cogan, Molloy College, author of Deconstructing South Park: Critical Examinations of Animated Transgression Author InformationLaura Tropp is professor of communication and media arts at Marymount Manhattan College. Janice Kelly is associate professor of communication arts and sciences at Molloy College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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