Screening minors in latin american cinema.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Latin America--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Children in motion pictures.

History.

Latin America.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Lexington Books, 2014.

Summary:

Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema is the first volume to delve into the construction of children's subjectivity and agency in Latin American film, and addresses such question as: How and to what extent do films express the point of view of the child? How to plots and film practices represent children's subjectivity and agency? Childhood studies have demonstrated the importance of examining the lives of children. Building on those insights, together with current research from film studies and Latin American cultural studies, the chapters in this volume analyze the development of agency and voice of minors in contemporary Latin American film. The theoretical perspectives used gender studies, psychoanalytic and postcolonial theory, film studies, play and performance studies, and emotion studies, among others-take into account innovative approaches to filmic techniques as they explore the varied representations of children. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Coming to Voice on Screen: Minors and the Struggle for Agency

1 Can Children Speak in Film?: Children's Subjectivity in Mutum (2007) and O contador de histórias (2009) / Carolina Rocha Rocha, Carolina 3

2 From the Child Who Dies to the Adolescent Who Kills: Children's Perception and Melancholy in La ciénaga and La rabia / Sophie Dufays Dufays, Sophie 19

3 Scribbles from a Little Girl: Violence and The Politics of Girlhood in Albertina Carri's Géminis and La rabia / Alejandra Josiowicz Josiowicz, Alejandra 35

II Children and Family Dynamics

4 "Yo No Soy Invisible": Imaginative Agency in Las malas intenciones / Sarah Thomas Thomas, Sarah 53

5 Playing Woman in Maria Novaro's Lola / Amanda Holmes Holmes, Amanda 69

6 "Be a Man!": Masculinities and Class Privileges in Postcoup Chilean Cinema Walescka Pino-Ojeda, Translated / Camilo Diaz Pino Pino, Camilo Diaz 87

III: Mobile Youth: Migration, Poverty, and Violence

7 Subjectivities in the Making: Tales of Transformation in Recent Central American Cinema / Hólmfriður Garðasdóttir Garðasdóttir, Hólmfriður 105

8 Bordering Adolescence: Latin American Youth in Road Films La misma luna and Sin nombre / Laura Senio Blair Blair, Laura Senio 119

9 Embodying Childhood Social Agency in Gustavo Loza's Al otro lado / Juli A. Kroll Kroll, Juli A. 133

10 Adolescent Subjectivity and Gender-Based Sexual Violence in Marisa Sistach's Perfume de violetas (Nadie te oye) and La niña en la piedra (Nadie te ve) / Traci Roberts-Camps Roberts-Camps, Traci 147

IV Minors' Subjectivity in Focus: Documentary and Neorealist Cinema

11 The Advent of Child-Centric Perspectives in Brazil's Urban-Realist Cinema: Building on Feminist Representations of Outlaw Emotions in Drama and Documentary / Jack A. Draper III Draper, Jack A. III 163

12 Agency, Performance, and Social Recognition in Priscila Padilla's La eterna noche de las doce lunas / Rachel Randall Randall, Rachel 179.

ISBN:

073919951X

9780739199510

OCLC:

879583562