Acting the child: Separating the infantile from the masculine in film and literature, 1835–1985
Acting the Child examines the ways in which adult male characters in film and literature from Europe and America can use the role of the child to their political and emotional advantage. As childhood became an increasingly powerful cultural concept, adult men accessed that power to define themselves...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2004
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3152746 |