Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema
Contributions by Jack A. Draper III, Sophie Dufays, Hólmfríður Garðarsdóttir University of Iceland, Amanda Holmes, Alejandra Josiowicz, Juli A. Kroll, Walescka Pino-Ojeda, Rachel Randall, Traci Roberts-Camps University of the Pacific, Carolina Rocha, Georgia Seminet St. Edward's University, Laura Senio Blair, Sarah Thomas Department of Secondary E Edited by Carolina Rocha, Georgia Seminet St. Edward's University
Publication date:
26 August 2014Length of book:
224 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksDimensions:
234x163mm6x9"
ISBN-13: 9780739199510
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.
The volume definitely advances the focus on childhood and adolescent subjectivities from a rich and current theoretical approach, including gender studies, psychoanalytical and post-colonial theory, film studies, play and performance studies, and emotion studies. In short, the volume is a first in the fast-evolving field of youth subjectivities in Latin American cinema, as well as a successful attempt to historicize Latin American subjectivity processes as expressed through the voice and point of view of the children and adolescents depicted in the cinema of the region. Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema is history in the making, literally.