Save the Cheerleader; Save the Males: Resurgent Protective Paternalism in Popular Film and Television after 9/11

Sarah Godfrey, Hannah Hamad

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Abstract

This chapter contains sections titled:

• Shifts in Postfeminism after 9/11 and the Revival of the Protective Patriarch

• Waging the War on Terror and being Home in Time for Dinner: The Public/Private Axis of Postfeminist Paternalism in Popular Film

• Revalidating Action Fatherhood through the Post-9/11 Cultural Logic of Protective Paternalism

• ‘You'd be Surprised what a Father will do for his Daughter’: Action Fatherhood in Contemporary Television Drama

• Conclusion

• References
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Blackwell Handbook of Gender, Sexualities and the Media
EditorsKaren Ross
PublisherWILEY-BLACKWELL
Pages157-173
ISBN (Electronic)9781118114254
ISBN (Print)9781444338546
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011

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