“Eventually most child labor was abolished in the West, and childhood evolved into a long period of incompetence and dependency… . Yet there remains one category of child who is both economically valuable and emotionally priceless: the child actor.”
-Judith Butler reviews John F. Kasson’s provocative book on the most famous child actor of them all: Shirley Temple and the Myth of Innocence
http://bostonreview.net/books-ideas/judith-levine-john-kasson-shirley-temple
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