Pops in Pop Culture: Fatherhood, Masculinity, and the New Man

Introduction: Pops in Pop Context; Elizabeth Podnieks
PART I: SELF-DEFINING DADS: AUTOBIOGRAPHY, PATERNAL LESSONS, AND NARRATIVE PERFORMANCE
1. Pappahandbooks: Guidebooks for Dads in Twenty-First Century Sweden; Helena Wahlström Henriksson
2. Fatherhood, Feminism, and Failure in Louis C.K.'s Comedy; Peter C. Kunze
3. "Daddy Time all the time": Representations of Involved Fatherhood in Contemporary Dadoirs; Elizabeth Podnieks
4. Daddyblogs Know Best: Histories of Fatherhood in the Cyber Age; May Friedman
PART II: "REAL" MEN: BRAWN, POWER, AND PROTECTION
5. Ads and Dads: TV Commercials and Contemporary Attitudes Toward Fatherhood; Kristi Rowan Humphreys
6. Hard Bodies, Soft Hearts: Mixed-Race Men as Muscular Daddies in the Films of Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson; Andrea Schofield
7. Contemporary Crime Fighting Dads: Negotiating Masculinity and Fathering in 24 and Castle; Christy Ebert Vrtis
8. Tale of Two Fathers: Authenticating Fatherhood in Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain: The Origami Killer and Naughty Dog's The Last of Us; Melvin G. Hill
PART III: ECONOMICS AND EMOTIONS: PROVIDERS, PALS, AND NURTURERS
9. Breaking Dad: Re-Imagining Post-War Models of American Fatherhood in Breaking Bad; Heath A. Diehl
10. Masculinity, Subjectivities, and Caregiving in the British Press: The Case of the Stay-At-Home Father; Abigail Locke
11. A Sentimental Fathering Model: Alexander McCall Smith's Vision for Nurturing Paternity in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series; Nicole L. Willey
12. Modern Fathers in Modern Family: The Impact of Generational Differences on Fatherhood Styles; Kathryn Pallister