Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Calling all daddies, zaddies, and baddies! This week on our “Machos: Fully Loaded” series, we’re continuing our investigation of onscreen masculinity through a discussion of fatherhood in media, looking at portrayals of dads and father figures who've been central figures of movies and television.

Links Mentioned:

Machos: Fully Loaded film list – letterboxd.com/aclamberty/list/machos-fully-loaded
New York Times article about a man adopting the baby he found in a subway station: archive.nytimes.com/query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage-9D0DE7DD1230F930A35750C0A9659D8B63.html
Hannah Hamad's "Hollywood Fatherhood: Paternal Postfeminism in Contemporary Popular Cinema": orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/105216/1/Hollywood%20Fatherhood%20HH.pdf
Time Stamps:
1:01:05 – Macho of the Week

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