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ISBN: 9780822347521 9780822347736 0822347520 0822347733 9786613251817 0822392984 1283251817 Year: 2010 Publisher: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press,
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Rethinks films including Pillow Talk and Rear Window by identifying the apartment plot as a distinct genre, one in which the urban apartment figures as a central narrative device.
Film --- anno 1940-1949 --- anno 1960-1969 --- anno 1950-1959 --- anno 1970-1979 --- United States --- Apartments in motion pictures --- Appartementen in de film --- Appartements dans le cinéma --- City and town life in motion pictures --- Stadsleven in de film --- Vie urbaine dans le cinéma --- Motion pictures --- History --- 20th century --- Apartments in motion pictures. --- Bostäder i filmen. --- Bühnenbild. --- City and town life in motion pictures. --- Film. --- Films. --- Motion pictures. --- Performing Arts. --- Pop-Kultur. --- Populaire cultuur. --- Staden i filmen. --- Staden på film, USA. --- Stadtleben --- Wohnung --- Woningen. --- Historia --- 1900-1999. --- USA. --- United States. --- Verenigde Staten. --- Performing Arts --- History & Criticism --- United States of America
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ISBN: 0813564492 9780813564494 9780813564487 9780813564470 0813564476 0813564484 9780813573625 Year: 2016 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ
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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 texts, Pamela Robertson Wojcik investigates how cities have simultaneously been demonized as dangerous spaces unfit for children and romanticized as wondrous playgrounds that foster a kid's independence and imagination. Charting the development of free-range urban child characters from Little Orphan Annie to Harriet the Spy to Hugo Cabret, and from Shirley Temple to the Dead End Kids, she considers the ongoing dialogue between these fictional representations and shifting discourses on the freedom and neglect of children. While tracking the general concerns Americans have expressed regarding the abstract figure of the child, the book also examines the varied attitudes toward specific types of urban children-girls and boys, blacks and whites, rich kids and poor ones, loners and neighborhood gangs. Through this diverse selection of sources, Fantasies of Neglect presents a nuanced chronicle of how notions of American urbanism and American childhood have grown up together.
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