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Fantasies of neglect : imagining the urban child in American film and fiction
- Title
- Fantasies of neglect : imagining the urban child in American film and fiction / Pamela Robertson Wojcik.
- Author
- Wojcik, Pamela Robertson, 1964-
- Publication
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- x, 222 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- 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.
- Series Statement
- The Rutgers series in childhood studies
- Uniform Title
- Rutgers series in childhood studies.
- Subjects
- Motion pictures
- American fiction
- City and town life in literature
- City and town life in motion pictures
- City children in literature
- City children in motion pictures
- American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- History
- United States
- 1900-1999
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-213) and index.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- MFL 16-5180
- ISBN
- 9780813564487
- 0813564484
- 9780813564470
- 0813564476
- LCCN
- 2016003240
- OCLC
- 947190749
- Author
- Wojcik, Pamela Robertson, 1964- author.
- Title
- Fantasies of neglect : imagining the urban child in American film and fiction / Pamela Robertson Wojcik.
- Publisher
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The Rutgers series in childhood studiesRutgers series in childhood studies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-213) and index.
- Note
- Description based on print version record.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- MFL 16-5180