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Fantasies of Neglect : Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction /

From Harriet the Spy to Hugo Cabret, American popular culture is filled with fictional children who journey through cities, unsupervised by adults. Fantasies of Neglect explains how this trope of the self-sufficient urban child originated and considers why it persists, even in the era of stranger da...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wojcik, Pamela Robertson, 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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