Fathers on Film: Paternity and Masculinity in 1990s Hollywood

by Katie Barnett

Book Overview

The father is an enduring and iconic figure in Hollywood cinema and in the 1990s, narratives of redemptive fatherhood featured prominently in some of the decade's most popular films like Kindergarten Cop (1990), Mrs Doubtfire (1993), Jurassic Park (1993) and The Lion King (1994). Interpreting such films through the lens of feminist and queer theory, along with masculinity studies and psychoanalysis, Katie Barnett offers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 135012088X
• ISBN13: 9781350120884
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.6"