Pamela Robertson Wojcik

Fantasies of Neglect

Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

From the early twentieth century to the present day, countless books and films have portrayed the solitary exploration of urban spaces as a source of empowerment and delight for children. Fantasies of Neglect explains how this trope of the self-sufficient, mobile urban child originated and considers why it persists, even as it goes against the grain of social reality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780813564487
• ISBN-10: 0813564484
• Artikelnr.: 44941918

Autorenporträt

Pamela Robertson Wojcik

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
 
Introduction: Mapping the Urban Child
 
1. Boys, Movies, and City Streets; or, The Dead End Kids as Modernists
 
2. Shirley Temple as Streetwalker: Girls, Streets, and Encounters with Men
 
3. Neglect at Home: Rejecting Mothers and Middle-Class Kids
 
4. “The Odds are Against Him”: Archives of Unhappiness among Black Urban
Boys
 
5. Helicopters and Catastrophes: The Failure to Neglect and Neglect as
Failure
 
Notes
Bibliography
Index