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.
Part I: Coming to Voice on Screen: Minors and the Struggle for Agency Chapter 1: Can Children Speak in Film? Children's Subjectivity in Mutum (2007) and O contador de historias (2009) Carolina Rocha Chapter 2: From the Child Who Dies to the Adolescent Who Kills: Children's Perception and Melancholy in La cienaga and La rabia Sophie Dufays Chapter 3: Scribbles from a Little Girl: Violence and The Politics of Girlhood in Albertina Carri's Geminis and La rabia Alejandra Josiowicz Part II: Children and Family Dynamics Chapter 4: "Yo no soy invisible:" Imaginative Agency in Las malas intenciones Garcia-Montero (2011) Sarah Thomas Chapter 5: Playing Woman in Maria Novaro's Lola Amanda Holmes Chapter 6: "Be a Man!": Masculinities and Class Privileges in Post-Coup Chilean Cinema Walescka Pino-Ojeda, translated by Camilo Diaz Pino Part III: Mobile Youth: Migration, Poverty and Violence Chapter 7: Subjectivities in the Making: Tales of Transformation in Recent Central American Cinema Holmfridur Gardarsdottir Chapter 8: Bordering Adolescence: Latin American Youth in Road Films La misma luna and Sin nombre Laura Senio-Blair Chapter 9: Embodying Childhood Social Agency in Gustavo Loza's Al otro lado (2004) Juli A. Kroll Chapter 10: Adolescent Subjectivity and Sexual Violence in Marisa Sistach's Perfume de violetas (Nadie te oye) and La nina en la piedra (Nadie te ve) Traci Roberts-Camps Part IV: Minors' Subjectivity in Focus: Documentary and Neorealist Cinema Chapter 11: The Advent of Child-Centric Perspectives in Brazil's Urban-Realist Cinema: Building on Feminist Representations of Outlaw Emotions in Drama and Documentary Jack A. Draper III Chapter 12: Agency, performance and Social Recognition in Priscila Padilla"s La eterna noche de las doce lunas (2013) Rachel Randall
