Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema

Herausgeber: Rocha, Carolina; Seminet, Georgia

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9780739199510
• ISBN-10: 073919951X
• Artikelnr.: 40905504

Autorenporträt

Edited by Carolina Rocha and Georgia Seminet - Contributions by Jack A. Draper III; Sophie Dufays; Hólmfríður Garðarsdóttir; Amanda Holmes; Alejandra Josiowicz; Juli A. Kroll; Walescka Pino-Ojeda; Rachel Randall; Traci Roberts-Camps; Carolina Rocha; Georg

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Coming to Voice on Screen: Minors and the Struggle for Agency
Chapter 1: Can Children Speak in Film? Children's Subjectivity in Mutum
(2007) and O contador de histórias (2009) Carolina Rocha Chapter 2: From
the Child Who Dies to the Adolescent Who Kills: Children's Perception and
Melancholy in La ciénaga and La rabia Sophie Dufays Chapter 3: Scribbles
from a Little Girl: Violence and The Politics of Girlhood in Albertina
Carri's Géminis and La rabia Alejandra Josiowicz Part II: Children and
Family Dynamics Chapter 4: "Yo no soy invisible:" Imaginative Agency in Las
malas intenciones García-Montero (2011) Sarah Thomas Chapter 5: Playing
Woman in María Novaro's Lola Amanda Holmes Chapter 6: "Be a Man!":
Masculinities and Class Privileges in Post-Coup Chilean Cinema Walescka
Pino-Ojeda, translated by Camilo Díaz Pino Part III: Mobile Youth:
Migration, Poverty and Violence Chapter 7: Subjectivities in the Making:
Tales of Transformation in Recent Central American Cinema Hólmfríður
Garðarsdóttir Chapter 8: Bordering Adolescence: Latin American Youth in
Road Films La misma luna and Sin nombre Laura Senio-Blair Chapter 9:
Embodying Childhood Social Agency in Gustavo Loza's Al otro lado (2004)
Juli A. Kroll Chapter 10: Adolescent Subjectivity and Sexual Violence in
Marisa Sistach's Perfume de violetas (Nadie te oye) and La niña en la
piedra (Nadie te ve) Traci Roberts-Camps Part IV: Minors' Subjectivity in
Focus: Documentary and Neorealist Cinema Chapter 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 Chapter 12: Agency, performance and Social Recognition in
Priscila Padilla"s La eterna noche de las doce lunas (2013) Rachel Randall