Fantasies of neglect

• Verfasst von: Wojcik, Pamela Robertson [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Fantasies of neglect
• Titelzusatz: imagining the urban child in American film and fiction
• Verf.angabe: Pamela Robertson Wojcik
• Verlagsort: New Brunswick, New Jersey
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• E-Jahr: 2016
• Jahr: [2016]
• Umfang: x, 222 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Format: 24 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: The Rutgers series in childhood studies
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-213) and index
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-6448-7
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-6447-0
• Schlagwörter: (g)USA / (s)Film / (s)Literatur / (s)Kind <Motiv> / (s)Stadt <Motiv> / (z)Geschichte 1900-
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Wojcik, Pamela Robertson: Fantasies of neglect. - New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2016. - 1 online resource (236 pages).
• K10plus-PPN: 857599690

Abstract

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