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Pamela Robertson Wojcik - Fantasies of Neglect: Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction - 9780813564487 - V9780813564487
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Fantasies of Neglect: Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction

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Description for Fantasies of Neglect: Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction Hardback. .
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 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. Drawing from a wide range of films, children’s books, adult novels, and sociological ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
Series
Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813564487
SKU
V9780813564487
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Pamela Robertson Wojcik
PAMELA ROBERTSON WOJCIK is a professor of film, television, and theater at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. She is the author of several books, including Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna; The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975; and is the editor of New Constellations: Movie Stars of the ... Read more

Reviews for Fantasies of Neglect: Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction
"Fantasies of Neglect has opened up a compelling and vital discussion about childhood freedoms and adult fantasies and fears that will inform and inspire, I believe, much scholarship to come. The dazzling breadth of its textual readings and the depth of its theoretical insights are sure to encourage many scholars to begin investigating not just the urban child, but representations ... Read more

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