Fantasies of Neglect – Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction

Fantasies of Neglect – Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction

Fantasies of NeglectImagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction\nAuthor(s): Pamela Robertson Wojcik\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9780813564470, 978-0813564470\nSynopsis\nIn 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 [url] 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, childrens books, adult novels, and sociological texts, Pamela Robertson Wojcik investigates how cities have simultaneously been demonized as dangerous spac.

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