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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458388503321

Titolo

Screening minors in Latin American cinema / / edited by Carolina Rocha and Georgia Seminet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, [England] : , : Rowman & Littlefield : , : Lexington Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-7391-9953-6

0-7391-9952-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Disciplina

791.43098

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Latin America - History - 20th century

Motion pictures - Latin America

Motion pictures - Social aspects - Latin America

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema</span><span> 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.</span></span>