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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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 1960s (Rutgers University Press).
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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