Where Have All the Fathers Gone?
by Gerald Jones
Films and Filming, June (pp.22-27)
and July (pp.22-28) 1974
Films and Filming, June (pp.22-27) and July (pp.22-28) 1974
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- "Social temperament . . . affects what we see on the screen and what we see on the screen affects social temperament." (June 1974, p.23)
- "For a considerable time now it has been the women--mothers, schoolteachers, baby-sitters and the ever-present feminine influence in advertising--who have been raising the children almost single-handedly." (July 1974, p.28)
- ". . . [T]he young (particularly boys) are hard-pressed to find a
model on which to fashion their own identity, hence we often see
them trying to forge their own paths and meet their problems
without the benefit of experience." (July 1974, p.28)
- ". . . [We] will again see positive male images reflected in films on a regular basis. Future man-boy relationships will not be as limited as before, and will very likely follow a whole new set of rules. It will be possible, for instance, to see complete father-son relationships between boys and men who are not even related, simply because in our society of fragmented families this is the only way we will be able to give the younge [sic; a typesetter's error!] people the examples they seek." July 1974, p.28)