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Unhomed

Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema

By: Pamela Robertson Wojcik

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Unhomed

Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema

By: Pamela Robertson Wojcik

In this rich cultural history, Pamela Roberston Wojcik examines America's ambivalent and shifting attitude toward homelessness. She considers film cycles from five distinct historical moments that show characters who are unhomed and placeless, mobile rather than fixed—characters who fail, resist, or opt out of the mandate for a home of one's own. From the tramp films of the silent era to the 2021 Oscar-winning Nomadland, Wojcik reveals a tension in the American imaginary between viewing homelessness as deviant and threatening or emblematic of freedom and independence. Blending social history with insights drawn from a complex array of films, both canonical and fringe, Wojcik effectively "unhomes" dominant narratives that cast aspirations for success and social mobility as the focus of American cinema, reminding us that genres of precarity have been central to American cinema (and the American story) all along.

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Univ of California Press

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ISBN 10

0520390377

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9780520390379

Guilty Pleasures

Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna

By: Pamela Robertson

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Guilty Pleasures

Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna

By: Pamela Robertson

Using detailed studies of stars such as Mae West, Joan Crawford and Madonna, Guilty Pleasures examines the tradition of feminist camp - a female form of aestheticism related to masquerade and rooted in burlesque, parallel but different to gay male camp.

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212

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Duke University Press

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0822317486

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9780822317487

Fantasies of Neglect

Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction

By: Pamela Robertson Wojcik

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Fantasies of Neglect

Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction

By: Pamela Robertson Wojcik

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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172

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Rutgers University Press

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ISBN 10

0813573629

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9780813573625

Gidget

Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise

By: Pamela Robertson Wojcik

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Gidget

Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise

By: Pamela Robertson Wojcik

Gidget: Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise examines the multiplicity of books, films, TV shows, and merchandise that make up the transmedia Gidget universe from the late 1950s to the 1980s. The book examines the Gidget phenomenon as an early and unique teen girl franchise that expands understanding of both teen girlhood and transmedia storytelling. It locates the film as existing at the historical intersection of numerous discourses and events, including the emergence of surf culture and surf films; the rise of California as signifier of modernity and as the epicentre of white American middle-class teen culture; the annexation of Hawaii; the invention of Barbie; and Hollywood’s reluctant acceptance of teen culture and teen audiences. Each chapter places the Gidget text in context, looking at production and reception circumstances and intertexts such as the novels of Françoise Sagan, the Tammy series, La Dolce Vita, and The Patty Duke Show, to better understand Gidget’s meaning at different points in time. This book explores many aspects of Gidget, providing an invaluable insight into this iconic franchise for students and researchers in film studies, feminist media studies, and youth culture.

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152

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Routledge

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1351734032

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9781351734035

Unhomed

Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema

By: Pamela Robertson Wojcik

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Unhomed

Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema

By: Pamela Robertson Wojcik

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Univ of California Press

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0520390369

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9780520390362

The Apartment Plot

Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975

By: Pamela Robertson Wojcik

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The Apartment Plot

Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975

By: Pamela Robertson Wojcik

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.

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342

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Duke University Press

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0822347733

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9780822347736

Fantasies of Neglect

Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction

By: Pamela Robertson Wojcik

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Fantasies of Neglect

Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction

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237

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Rutgers University Press

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0813564492

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9780813564494

Gidget

Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise

By: Pamela Robertson Wojcik

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Gidget

Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise

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110

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Routledge

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1351734040

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9781351734042

What Inspirational Literature Do I Read Next?

By: Pamela Willwerth Aue,Henry L. Carrigan (Jr)

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What Inspirational Literature Do I Read Next?

By: Pamela Willwerth Aue,Henry L. Carrigan (Jr)

Religiously-inspired novels, inspirational writings and biographical works on people who are models for spiritual growth are among the recommendations found in this reference.

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526

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Gale Research International, Limited

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0787639427

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9780787639426

Book's by Pamela Robertson Wojcik

Unhomed

Unhomed

Guilty Pleasures

Guilty Pleasures

Fantasies of Neglect

Fantasies of Neglect

Gidget

Gidget

Unhomed

Unhomed

The Apartment Plot

The Apartment Plot

Fantasies of Neglect

Fantasies of Neglect

Gidget

Gidget

What Inspirational Literature Do I Read Next?

What Inspirational Literature Do I Read Next?

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