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- Title
Super Daddy Issues: Parental Figures, Masculinity, and Superhero Films.
- Authors
Kvaran, Kara M.
- Abstract
Criticism is offered to the depiction of fathers and masculinity in several American superhero films, including "Batman Begins," directed by Christopher Nolan, "Superman," directed by Richard Donner and starring Christopher Reeves and "Daredevil," directed by Mark Steven Johnson. It compares the depiction of fathers and mothers in American superhero films.
- Subjects
SUPERHERO films; FATHERS in motion pictures; AMERICAN films -- History &; criticism; MASCULINITY in motion pictures; SUPERMAN (Film); DAREDEVIL (Film); BATMAN Begins (Film); MOTHERS in motion pictures
- Publication
Journal of Popular Culture, 2017, Vol 50, Issue 2, p218
- ISSN
1540-5931
- Publication type
Film/Television Criticism
- DOI
10.1111/jpcu.12531