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Book Hollywood Dads

Download or read book Hollywood Dads written by and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2007-04-26 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Rod Stewart to Henry Winkler to Deepak Chopra, famous dads are photographed with their children in this companion to the bestselling "Hollywood Moms." Each of the 50 duotone photographs is accompanied by a bit of parenting wisdom written by the celebrity in the photo.

Book Bringing Up Daddy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stella Bruzzi
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2019-07-25
  • ISBN : 183871474X
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book Bringing Up Daddy written by Stella Bruzzi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a broad perspective on the Hollywood dad, looking at important Hollywood fathers and discussing films from many genres, this book adopts a multi-faceted theoretical approach, making use of psychoanalysis, sociology and masculinity studies and contextualising the father figure within both Hollywood and American history.

Book Fathers on Film

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katie Barnett
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2020-02-06
  • ISBN : 1350120871
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book Fathers on Film written by Katie Barnett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 an insightful and interdisciplinary discussion of cinematic fathers. Barnett reveals that the father figure is often portrayed as one that invests in and is part of a discourse of reproductive futurism. This plays out across a range of genres including rom-coms, fantasy, sci-fi, drama, and disaster. By exploring both blockbuster and more low-budget films of the 1990s, Barnett explores the figure of the father against the crisis of masculinity in the United States, and indeed more globally, at this time.

Book Pure Fatherhood and the Hollywood Family Film

Download or read book Pure Fatherhood and the Hollywood Family Film written by Denise McNulty Norton and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book maps father failure and redemption through three decades of Hollywood family films, revealing how libertarian notions that align agency with autonomy lead to new conflicts for the contemporary father. The films find resolution to these conflicts through a re-gendering of parenting as relationship. In their creation of a ‘pure’ fatherhood that is valorised as authentic for its lack of parental responsibilities, the films serve to challenge the perception that fathering enacted outside the nuclear family structure is fragile. McNulty Norton finds in the films a new essentialism that secures the pure relationship to the biological father, reinforcing his position in the face of changing family forms.

Book Contemporary Hollywood Masculinities

Download or read book Contemporary Hollywood Masculinities written by Susanne Kord and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kord and Krimmer investigate the most common male types - cops, killers, fathers, cowboys, superheroes, spies, soldiers, rogues, lovers, and losers - by tracing changing concepts of masculinity in popular Hollywood blockbusters from 1992 to 2008 - the Clinton and Bush eras - against a backdrop of contemporary political events, social developments, and popular American myths. Their in-depth analysis of over sixty films, from The Matrix and Iron Man to Pirates of the Caribbean and The Lord of the Rings, shows that movies, far from being mere entertainment, respond directly to today's social and political realities, from consumerism to "family values" to the War on Terror.

Book Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

Download or read book Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema written by J. Gwynne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By analyzing the negotiation of femininities and masculinities within contemporary Hollywood cinema, Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema presents diverse interrogations of popular cinema and illustrates the need for a renewed scholarly focus on contemporary film production.

Book Jet

    Jet

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002-06-17
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-06-17 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.

Book Hollywood

    Book Details:
  • Author : Keegan Allen
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Press
  • Release : 2018-04-24
  • ISBN : 1250086027
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Hollywood written by Keegan Allen and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The actor, photographer, and bestselling author reveals the Hollywood we see--and the one we don't--with a photography narrative featuring more than 250 emotionally charged color and black and white photos."--

Book Pops in Pop Culture

Download or read book Pops in Pop Culture written by Elizabeth Podnieks and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, blogs, best-selling fiction and non-fiction, stand-up comedy routines, advertisements, newspaper articles, parenting guide-books, and video games. Treating constructions of the father at the nexus of patriarchy, gender, and (post)feminist philosophy, contributors analyze how fatherhood is defined in relation to masculinity and femininity, and the shifting structures of the heteronormative nuclear family. Perceptions of the father as the traditional breadwinner and authoritarian as compared to a more engaged and involved nurturer are considered via representations of fathers from the US, Canada, Britain, Australia, South Africa, and Sweden.

Book To Me  He Was Just Dad

Download or read book To Me He Was Just Dad written by Joshua David Stein and published by Artisan Books. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The lowdown on what it’s like to be raised by a legend. Frequently funny and consistently intimate. . . . A great read.” —BookPage “Those searching for a moving Father’s Day gift need look no further.” —Publishers Weekly Men like John Wayne and John Lennon, Nolan Ryan and Bruce Lee, Cesar Chavez, Christopher Reeve, and Miles Davis have touched the lives of millions. But at home, to their children, they were not their public personas. They were Dad. Maybe Davis didn’t leave the office at five o’clock to come home and play catch with his son Erin, but the man we see through Erin’s eyes is so alive, so real, so not the “king of cool” (he taught his son to box, made a killer pot of chili, watched MTV alongside him) that it brings us to a whole new appreciation for the artist. Each of these forty first-person narratives—intimate, heartfelt, unvarnished, surprising, and profoundly universal—shows us not only a very different view of a figure we thought we knew but also a wholly fresh and moving idea of what it means to be a father.

Book The Legendary Brad Pitt

Download or read book The Legendary Brad Pitt written by J.D. Rockefeller and published by J.D. Rockefeller. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a well-known actor and a public figure, Brad Pitt has been cited as one of the most powerful and influential people in the American entertainment industry, as well as the most attractive man in the world by various media outlets. When it comes to his personal life, he also the subject of wide publicity. He decided to get divorced from his previous wife, Jennifer Aniston, to whom he married for five years. After their divorce, he then got married to another popular actress in Hollywood, Angelina Jolie in 2014. Learn more about the life of this fascinating Hollywood actor!

Book 52 Things Kids Need from a Dad

Download or read book 52 Things Kids Need from a Dad written by Jay Payleitner and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “God, please help me...another game of Candy Land...” Quite a few dads spend time with their kids. However, many have no clue what their kids really need. Enter author Jay Payleitner, veteran dad of five, who’s also struggled with how to build up his children’s lives. His 52 Things Kids Need from a Dad combines straightforward features with step-up-to-the-mark challenges men will appreciate: a full year’s worth of focused, doable ideas—one per week, if desired uncomplicated ways to be an example, like “kiss your wife in the kitchen” tough, frank advice, like “throw away your porn” And, refreshingly... NO exhaustive (and exhausting) lists of “things you should do” NO criticism of dads for being men and acting like men Dads will feel respected and empowered, and gain confidence to initiate activities that build lifelong positives into their kids. Great gift or men’s group resource!

Book The Period Passport

Download or read book The Period Passport written by Chaste Christopher Inegbedion and published by Padbanque Inc. This book was released on with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As early as 8 years old, a girl can experience her first period. Are you prepared to answer her questions? The Period Passport, a self-help guide to understanding all there is to know about periods, answers the core questions pertinent in young minds, such as the mystery behind menstruation, the role Google could play in ending Period Poverty, and even bridging the disparity in gender education. One may be tempted to ask, ‘Why exactly should boys be educated on menstruation since it is not part of their physiology?’ The more they know, the better they can empathize with and understand the women in their lives. The Period Passport helps us see different perspectives while bringing to light the reasons male education for menstruation is important, and how it could affect the near future. This booklet does not only stand for education but advocates for the eradication of Period Poverty and the part we could play towards achieving this. The Period Passport is a call to action to the concerned parts of ourselves, parts that could be instruments of change in our world, in solving one of the biggest problems menstruating individuals face today. A unique factor that pushes The Period Passport to the limelight is how it delivers information. We all know that having the right information is important, but conveying that right information properly is even more important. This is because comprehension is the key to knowledge. With its user-friendly interactive outlook, The Period Passport is an easy, organized way to disseminate information on menstruation. In addition, the Period Genie is standing by, ever willing to help!

Book Jet

    Jet

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1999-05-24
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 1999-05-24 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.

Book Starring Tom Cruise

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sean Redmond
  • Publisher : Wayne State University Press
  • Release : 2021-03-23
  • ISBN : 0814347193
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book Starring Tom Cruise written by Sean Redmond and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interdisciplinary star study of one of the most iconic Hollywood celebrities of the last thirty-five years.

Book Beautiful Eyes  A Father Transformed

Download or read book Beautiful Eyes A Father Transformed written by Paul Austin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through parenting a child with a disability, a father discovers patience, acceptance, and unconditional love. In 1987, Paul Austin and his wife Sally were newlyweds, excited about their future together and happily anticipating the birth of their first child. He was a medical student and she was a nurse. Everything changed the moment the doctor rushed their infant daughter from the room just after her birth, knowing instantly that something was wrong. Sarah had almond-shaped eyes, a single crease across her palm instead of three, and low-set ears—all of which suggested that the baby had Down syndrome. Beginning on the day Sarah is born and ending when she is a young adult living in a group home, Beautiful Eyes is the story of a father's journey toward acceptance of a child who is different. In a voice that is unflinchingly honest and unerringly compassionate, Austin chronicles his life with his daughter: watching her learn to walk and talk and form her own opinions, making decisions about her future, and navigating cultural assumptions and prejudices—all the while confronting, with poignancy and moving candor, his own limitations as her father. It is Sarah herself, who, in her own coming of age and her own reconciling with her difference, teaches her father to understand her. Time and again, she surprises him: performing Lady Gaga’s "Poker Face" at a talent show; explaining how the word "retarded" is hurtful; reacting to the events of her life with a mixture of love, pain, and humor; and insisting on her own humanity in a world that questions it. As Sarah begins to blossom into herself, her father learns to look past his daughter’s disability and see her as the spirited, warmhearted, and uniquely wise person she is.

Book Selling Electronic Media

Download or read book Selling Electronic Media written by Ed Shane and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1999-02-17 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Selling is identifying and satisfying customer needs profitably. Profitable for you, profitable for them." Diane Sutter, President and CEO of Shooting Star Broadcasting , owner of KTAB-TV, Abilene, Texas This is the definition of sales used throughout Ed Shane's comprehensive and timely textbook Selling Electronic Media. This new definition reflects the customer-orientation of today's marketing environment as well as the product-orientation of selling. Today's selling is a win/win proposition, a win for the seller and a win for the customer. Using interviews with industry leaders and reports of their selling experiences, Selling Electronic Media shares insight and practical advice in the basics of selling: · prospecting · qualifying · needs analysis · presentations · answering objections · closing · relationship management Focusing on the merging and converging of electronic media and the need for branding of media at all levels, this highly readable book offers complete coverage of advertising sales for radio, television and cable, plus the new and emerging mass communication technologies, primarily those generated by the Internet. Selling Electronic Media is enhanced with review highlights and discussion points and illustrated throughout with visuals used by media outlets to market commercials and their audience reach. Students pursuing sales and marketing careers in electronic media and professionals wishing to reinforce their understanding of the merging and converging media environment will find what they need in the pages of this book.