The Child in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

• Main Author: Martin, Deborah (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Global Cinema
• Subjects: Motion pictures, American.; Ethnology-Latin America.; Motion pictures.; Youth-Social life and customs.; Communication.; Latin American Cinema and TV.; Latin American Culture.; Global Cinema and TV.; Youth Culture.; Media and Communication.

What is the child for Latin American cinema? This book aims to answer that question, tracing the common tendencies of the representation of the child in the cinema of Latin American countries, and demonstrating the place of the child in the movements, genres and styles that have defined that cinema....

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Child Death in Buenos Aires viceversa, La vendedora de rosas and La mujer sin cabeza
• 3. Children's Journeys: Central do Brasil, Viva Cubaand Cochochi
• 4. The Childhood of a National Hero: José Martí: el ojo del canario
• 5. The Child in Post-dictatorship Southern Cone Film
• 6. Unruly Bodies: La rabia and El último verano de la boyita
• 7. Transnational Mobility, Authenticity and the Child: Alamar.