| Description |
1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
The Rutgers series in childhood studies
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Rutgers series in childhood studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
City and town life in literature.
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City and town life in literature. |
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City children in literature.
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City children in literature. |
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Motion pictures. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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City and town life in motion pictures.
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City and town life in motion pictures. |
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City children in motion pictures.
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City children in motion pictures. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780813564487 0813564484 (DLC) 2016003240 (OCoLC)947190749 |
| ISBN |
9780813564494 (electronic book) |
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0813564492 (electronic book) |
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0813564492 |
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9780813564487 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780813564470 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0813564476 |
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0813564484 |
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