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This book analyzes the representation of children in 21st-century Latin American cinema by bringing attention to the political act of choosing children as protagonists. It provides a platform to understand the mechanisms in contemporary filmmaking that challenge the displacement created by the conventional subordinated role of children in cinema.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Cinema and the Picaresque: The Art of Survival in the Paraguayan Film 7 Cajas (2012).
Chapter 2. Familial Bonds and Developing Subjectivities in Verónica Reidel's Cápsulas (2011).
Chapter 3. Michel Franco's Después de Lucía (2012): A Portrait of a Bullied Adolescent.
Chapter 4. A Uruguayan Girl: Anina (2013) by Alejandro Soderguit.
Chapter 5. Melancholia and Relajo in Güeros (2014) by Alonso Ruizpalacios.
Chapter 6. Re-Mediating Adolescent Subjectivities: Indigeneity and the Gendered 'Dividual' in El niño pez (2009) and Feriado (2014).
Chapter 7. When Children Direct a Film, What Do They Talk About?
Chapter 8. Under The Wings of the Law: Juizo (2008) by Maria Augusta Ramos.
Chapter 9. On and Off the Road with the Children of Che Guevara: Viva Cuba (2005) and Infancia clandestina (2011).
Chapter 10. Memory Transmission in Paraíso (2009) of Héctor Gálvez.
Chapter 11. What's Wrong with My Name? Appropriation, Identity and Familial Ties in Cautiva (2005).
Chapter 12. Children Families and National Trauma in Contemporary Dictatorship Films in Chile, Andres Wood's Machuca (2004) and Pablo Larraín's No (2012).
About the author
María Soledad Paz-Mackay is associate professor in the Department of Modern Languages at St. Francis Xavier University.
Omar Rodríguez, is associate professor in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Lethbridge.
Summary
This book analyzes the representation of children in 21st-century Latin American cinema by bringing attention to the political act of choosing children as protagonists. It provides a platform to understand the mechanisms in contemporary filmmaking that challenge the displacement created by the conventional subordinated role of children in cinema.
