Representing history, class, and gender in Spain and Latin America
Subtitle: children and adolescents in film
By: Carolina Rocha and Georgia Seminet
Contributors: Seminet, Georgia, 1961-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781137030863
Subjects: Motion pictures; Children in motion pictures; Teenagers in motion pictures
Description: 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?
Table of contents: title: Memory and trauma. Introduction / Carolina Rocha and Georgia Seminet; title: Julia Tun: Surviving childhood: the Nepantla generation as portrayed in On the empty balcony by Jome Garcia Ascot (1962); title: Antonio Gomez L.-Quinones: Fairies, maquis, and children without schools: romantic childhood and civil war in Pan's labyrinth; title: Georgia Seminet: A child's voice, a country's silence: ethnicity, class and gender in El silencio de neto (1996); title: Carolina Rocha: Children's views of state-sponsored violence in Latin America: Machuca and The year my parents went on vacation; title: Janis Breckenridge: Enabling, enacting and envisioning societal complicity: Daniel Bustamante's Andres no quiere dormir la siesta (2009); title: Childhood and paths to citizenship in film. Ignacio Sanchez Prado: Innocence interrupted: neoliberalism and the end of childhood in recent Mexican cinema; title: Dan Russek: from Bunuel to Eimbcke: orphanhood in recent Mexican cinema; title: Eduardo Ledesma: through "their" eyes: internal and external focalizing agents in the representation of children and violence in Iberian and Latin American film; title: Rosana Diaz Zambrana: Roads to emancipation: sentimental education in Viva Cuba; title: Gender identity. Jeff Zamostny: Donstructing ethical attention in Lucia Puenzo's XXY: cinematic strategy, intersubjectivity, and intersexuality; title: 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; title: Beatriz Urraca: No longer young: childhood, family, and trauma in Las mantenidas sin sueos.