Animation lends itself more readily to the blurring of time periods than live action does, and a new cartoon Apple TV+ adaptation, starring Beanie Feldstein, could be set at any point in the past half century. In 1996, Nickelodeon transported her out of the mid-century, with a goofy live-action film starring Michelle Trachtenberg. Take, for instance, the nineteen-sixties’ most iconic underage sleuth, Harriet M. Stripped of their initial contexts, and cleansed of any outdated particularities, they seem to endure in an eternal present tense. There is a certain alchemy by which canonical characters, especially the figures of children’s literature, come to exist outside of history.
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