Home Movies: The American Family in Contemporary Hollywood

Throughout she refers to her previous arguments and concludes the book with a clear and concise restatement of her overarching thesis: that while Hollywood remains a patriarchal institution and as such is inexorably tied to a traditionally male-dominant familial structure, recent popular films displ...

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Published in:Gender forum 2015-01 (54), p.N_A
Main Author: Huntington, Eleanor
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Behavior
Couples
Families & family life
Fathers
Gays & lesbians
Mothers
Motion pictures
Parents & parenting
Single parents
Streep, Meryl
Television
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Summary:Throughout she refers to her previous arguments and concludes the book with a clear and concise restatement of her overarching thesis: that while Hollywood remains a patriarchal institution and as such is inexorably tied to a traditionally male-dominant familial structure, recent popular films display a tendency towards liberalizing the family's on-screen representation. 3Drawing heavily on Stephanie Coontz's research on American families and marriage in postwar America, Jenkins frequently invokes the wide disparity between the imagined American family presented on film and on television, and the realities of the American family (much more ethnically and socio-economically diverse) throughout modern American history.
ISSN:1613-1878