Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema

Carolina Rocha is associate professor of Spanish at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.Georgia Seminet is associate professor of Spanish at St. Edward’s University.

• Part I: Coming to Voice on Screen: Minors and the Struggle for AgencyChapter 1: Can Children Speak in Film? Children’s Subjectivity in Mutum (2007) and Ocontador de histórias (2009) Carolina RochaChapter 2: From the Child Who Dies to the Adolescent Who Kills: Children’s Perception and Melancholy in La ciénaga and La rabia Sophie DufaysChapter 3: Scribbles from a Little Girl: Violence and The Politics of Girlhood in Albertina Carri’s Géminis and La rabia Alejandra JosiowiczPart II: Children and Family DynamicsChapter 4: “Yo no soy invisible:” Imaginative Agency in Las malas intenciones García-Montero (2011) Sarah Thomas Chapter 5: Playing Woman in María Novaro’s Lola Amanda HolmesChapter 6: “Be a Man!”: Masculinities and Class Privileges in Post-Coup Chilean Cinema Walescka Pino-Ojeda, translated by Camilo Díaz PinoPart III: Mobile Youth: Migration, Poverty and ViolenceChapter 7: Subjectivities in the Making: Tales of Transformation in Recent Central American Cinema Hólmfríður GarðarsdóttirChapter 8: Bordering Adolescence: Latin American Youth in Road Films La misma luna and Sin nombre Laura Senio-BlairChapter 9: Embodying Childhood Social Agency in Gustavo Loza’s Al otro lado (2004)Juli A. KrollChapter 10: Adolescent Subjectivity and Sexual Violence in Marisa Sistach’s Perfume de violetas (Nadie te oye) and La niña en la piedra (Nadie te ve)Traci Roberts-CampsPart IV: Minors' Subjectivity in Focus: Documentary and Neorealist CinemaChapter 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”sLa eterna noche de las doce lunas (2013) Rachel Randall

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.