Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (226 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I: Coming to Voice on Screen: Minors and the Struggle for Agency -- 1 Can Children Speak in Film? -- 2 From the Child Who Dies to the Adolescent Who Kills -- 3 Scribbles from a Little Girl -- II: Children and Family Dynamics -- 4 "Yo No Soy Invisible" -- 5 Playing Woman in María Novaro's Lola -- 6 "Be a Man!" -- III: Mobile Youth: Migration, Poverty, and Violence -- 7 Subjectivities in the Making -- 8 Bordering Adolescence -- 9 Embodying Childhood Social Agency in Gustavo Loza's Al otro lado -- 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) -- IV: Minors' Subjectivity in Focus: Documentary and Neorealist Cinema -- 11 The Advent of Child-Centric Perspectives in Brazil's Urban-Realist Cinema -- 12 Agency, Performance, and Social Recognition in Priscila Padilla's La eterna noche de las doce lunas -- Index -- About the Contributors.
Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema is the first book to examine how Latin American filmmakers represent the subjectivity of children and adolescents in an adult medium. The chapters analyze children's developing agency in diverse social contexts across Latin America.
9780739199527
Motion pictures -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century.