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

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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.
Temas:
Motion pictures.
City children in motion pictures.
City children in literature.
City and town life in motion pictures.
City and town life in literature.
American fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Enfants en milieu urbain au cinema.
Vie urbaine au cinema.
Cinema > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Roman americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Enfants en milieu urbain dans la litterature.
Vie urbaine dans la litterature.
Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: mapping the urban child
  • Boys, movies, and city streets, or the dead end kids as modernists
  • Shirley Temple as streetwalker: girls, streets, and encounters with men
  • Neglect at home: rejecting mothers and middle class kids
  • "The odds are against him": archives of unhappiness among black urban boys
  • Helicopters and catastrophes: the failure to neglect and neglect as failure.

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