Fantasies of Neglect : : Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction / / Pamela Robertson Wojcik.
In our current era of helicopter parenting and stranger danger, an unaccompanied child wandering through the city might commonly be viewed as a victim of abuse and neglect. However, from the early twentieth century to the present day, countless books and films have portrayed the solitary exploration...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter RUP eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 22 photographs |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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
- About The Author