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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 questions as: How and to
what extent do films express the point of view of the child? How do
plots and film practices represent children s subjectivity and
agency? Childhood studies has 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 essays in this volume analyze the development
of agency and voices 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."
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 questions as: How and to
what extent do films express the point of view of the child? How do
plots and film practices represent children's subjectivity and
agency? Childhood studies has 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 essays in this volume analyze the development
of agency and voices 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.
This collection focuses on children and adolescents in Latin
American and Spanish cinema from 1960 to the present as witnesses
and objects of the spectatorial gaze. The carefully chosen essays
survey the representation of the past and the definition of gender
and class identity as experienced by young protagonists in films.
This volume offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of
Latin American and Spanish film as well as gender studies. Some of
the questions addressed in this collection are: what do children
and adolescents in Latin American and Spanish film see and how are
they seen?
This anthology explores the role of children and teenagers in Latin
American and Spanish Film as protagonists, victims and witnesses of
societies polarized by and still grappling with the consequences of
political divisions.
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