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Daniel O'Brien, Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex

Seven memorable films to watch with your dad on Father’s Day

Despite the prominence of family relationships in cinema, fatherhood remains a surprisingly underexplored area of academic film study.

There are a few exceptions. Charting the emergence of the paternal protector as a key masculine archetype is Katie Barnett’s Fathers on Film: Paternity and Masculinity in 1990s Hollywood. And crucially, Gershon Reiter’s Fathers and Sons in Cinema considers the lasting impact of absent fathers on cinematic characters.

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