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1 online resource (xx, 204 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Contents |
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 / 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 / Hólmfríơur Garơarsdóttir ; 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. 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 Padillas La eterna noche de las doce lunas / Rachel Randall. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century.
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Motion pictures. |
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Latin America. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Children in motion pictures.
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Children in motion pictures. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Rocha, Carolina, editor.
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Seminet, Georgia, 1961- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Screening minors in Latin American cinema. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, [2014] 073919951X (OCoLC)879583562 |
| ISBN |
9780739199527 (electronic book) |
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0739199528 (electronic book) |
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9780739199510 |
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073919951X |
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