Cinema and the picaresque: the art of survival in the Paraguayan film 7 Cajas / Rafaela Fiore Urizar -- Familial bonds and developing subjectivities in Verónica Reidel's Cápsulas / Diana Pifano -- Michel Franco's Después de Lucía (2012): a portrait of a bullied adolescent / Argelia González Hurtado -- A Uruguayan girl: Anina (2013) by Alejandro Soderguit / Marcela García -- Melancholia and Relajo in Güeros (2014) by Alonso Ruizpalacios / Dan Russek -- Re-mediating adolescent subjectivities: indigeneity and the gendered "dividual" in El Niño Pez (2009) and Feriado (2014) / Ramiro Armas Austria -- When children direct a film, what do they talk about? / Omar Rodríguez -- Under the wings of the law: Juízo (2008) by Maria Augusta Ramos / Tunico Amancio and Maria Livia do Nascimento -- On and off the road with the children of Che Guevara: Viva Cuba (2005) and Infancia clandestina (2011) / Norman Cheadle -- Transmission of memory in Héctor Gálvez's Paraiso / Giovanna Pollarolo -- What's wrong with my name? Appropriation, identity, and familial ties in Cautiva (2005) / María Soledad Paz-Mackay -- Children, broken families, and national trauma in contemporary dictatorship films in Chile: Andres Wood's Machuca (2004) and Pablo Larrain's No (2012) / Barbara Fraser.
Summary:
This book explores the trend of portraying children and adolescents from a subjective, adult-constructed point of view in Latin American cinema. This trend, in which filmmakers express their own anxieties while subordinating the child's, draws new political implications about these constructions of children's subjective character.
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