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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Wojcik, Pamela Robertson, 1964- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2016.
Collection:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
1900-1999
City and town life in literature.
City children in literature.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century.
City and town life in motion pictures.
City children in motion pictures.
Vie urbaine dans la littérature.
Enfants en milieu urbain dans la littérature.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Cinéma > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Vie urbaine au cinéma.
Enfants en milieu urbain au cinéma.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction.
Motion pictures.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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