Representing History, Class, and Gender in Spain and Latin America [electronic resource] : Children and Adolescents in Film /
Rocha, Carolina.author.
Seminet, Georgia.author.
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Memory and trauma. Introduction / Carolina Rocha and Georgia Seminet -- Julia Tun: Surviving childhood: the Nepantla generation as portrayed in On the empty balcony by Jome Garcia Ascot (1962) -- Antonio Gomez L.-Quinones: Fairies, maquis, and children without schools: romantic childhood and civil war in Pan's labyrinth --  Georgia Seminet: A child's voice, a country's silence: ethnicity, class and gender in El silencio de neto (1996) -- Carolina Rocha: Children's views of state-sponsored violence in Latin America: Machuca and The year my parents went on vacation -- Janis Breckenridge: Enabling, enacting and envisioning societal complicity: Daniel Bustamante's Andres no quiere dormir la siesta (2009) -- Childhood and paths to citizenship in film. Ignacio Sanchez Prado: Innocence interrupted: neoliberalism and the end of childhood in recent Mexican cinema -- Dan Russek: from Bunuel to Eimbcke: orphanhood in recent Mexican cinema -- Eduardo Ledesma: through "their" eyes: internal and external focalizing agents in the representation of children and violence in Iberian and Latin American film -- Rosana Diaz Zambrana: Roads to emancipation: sentimental education in Viva Cuba -- Gender identity. Jeff Zamostny: Donstructing ethical attention in Lucia Puenzo's XXY: cinematic strategy, intersubjectivity, and intersexuality -- Jack Draper: Cinematic portrayals of teen girls in Brazil's urban peripheries: realist and subjectivist approaches to adolescent dreams and fantasy in Sonhos roubados and Nina -- Beatriz Urraca: No longer young: childhood, family, and trauma in Las mantenidas sin sueos.
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.
America-History.
Motion pictures and television.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Sociology.
Ethnology-Latin America.
Film genres.
History of the Americas.
Screen Studies.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Gender Studies.
Latin American Culture.
Genre.