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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wojcik, Pamela Robertson, 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 danger and helicopter parenting. Drawing from a wide range of films, novels, and sociological texts, Pamela Robertson Wojcik investigates how cities have been central to how Americans imagine the freedom and neglect of children.
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages).
ISBN:9780813564494

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