Children on the Threshold in Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Nature, Gender, and Agency

Rachel Randall

doi:10.5771/9781498555142

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Children on the Threshold in Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Nature, Gender, and Agency analyzes child and adolescent protagonists in Latin American cinema. This book contends that child characters have taken on a critical representational role within Latin American cinema because of their position on the threshold between “nature” and “culture,” which converts them into a focus of, and a limit to, state or colonial biopower. Rachel Randall provides a comprehensive examination of the key themes and developments in boys’ and girls’ cinematic representations since the adoption of children’s rights discourses in the region. Recommended for scholars interested in Latin American studies, film studies, and cultural studies.

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Edition: 1/2017
Copyright Year: 2017
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-5513-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-5514-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 234
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Introduction No access
1. 1. LA VIOLENCIA IN LOS NIÑOS INVISIBLES No access
  2. JOÃO GUIMARÃES ROSA AND THE SERTÃO IN MUTUM No access
  3. Patriarchal Presence/absence And The Nation-state No access
  4. The Mother And The Abject No access
  5. “A Child Is Being Beaten” No access
  6. Aggressivity, Alienation And The Collective Imaginary No access
  7. Fluid Kin Relationships No access
  8. Childhood And Adulthood: Past And Present No access
  9. Notes No access
2. 1. “Bare Life” No access
  2. Cell Families And Biopower No access
  3. Military Rule In Brazil (1964–1985) And Chile (1973–1990) No access
  4. Integralist Techniques No access
  5. “the Cup Of Ambiguity” No access
  6. Prophetic Jewish Time No access
  7. Divine Intervention No access
  8. Uncanny Home-spaces No access
  9. The Difficulty Of SEEING No access
  10. Relationships To The (m)other No access
  11. Silvana No access
  12. Utopian Dreams No access
  13. The Football Pitch No access
  14. Notes No access
3. 1. PequeÑas Voces No access
  2. Linha De Passe No access
  3. Los Colores De La MontaÑa No access
  4. “Affective Alliances” And The Space Of Football No access
  5. Childhood Heterotopias No access
  6. Interrupted Identifications No access
  7. Notes No access
1. 1. And “sensuous” Cinema No access
  2. Navidad No access
  3. À Deriva No access
  4. De Jueves A Domingo No access
  5. “Objectless Curiosity” No access
  6. Historical Allegory No access
  7. Transitional Girlhoods No access
  8. The Oedipal Complex No access
  9. The “skin Ego” No access
  10. Spectatorial Immersion No access
  11. The Refusal Of Identification No access
  12. Childish Desire: “objectless Curiosity” No access
  13. UNHEIMLICH HOMES No access
  14. Liminal Swimming Pools In No access
  15. Temporalities Of Haunting No access
  16. Privileged Girlhoods No access
  17. Separation From The Mother No access
  18. An Alternative Biopolitical Family No access
  19. Notes No access
2. 1. Vulnerable And “unintelligible” Childhoods No access
  2. Media Myths: “the Path Of Good And The Path Of Evil” No access
  3. The “paradox Of Subjection” No access
  4. Media Manipulation No access
  5. Branquinha’s “unorthodox” And Ambivalent Sexual Agency No access
  6. Sandro’s Simulation No access
  7. “Grievability” No access
  8. Notes No access
3. 1. Children’s Agency No access
  2. Vulnerability, Crisis, And Rebirth In No access
  3. Myths Of Indigenous “innocence” No access
  4. “The Primitive Need For Security” No access
  5. Youth, Plenitude, And Wildness No access
  6. Conflicting Notions Of Feminine “agency” No access
  7. Self-reflexivity And Performativity No access
  8. Criticism Of “masculine” Behaviors No access
  9. “Politics Of Resistance” No access
  10. The Acquisition Of Individual Value No access
  11. “Social Recognition” No access
  12. Flexible Social Structures No access
  13. Notes No access
Conclusion No access Pages 191 - 198
Bibliography No access Pages 199 - 222
Index No access Pages 223 - 232
About the Author No access Pages 233 - 234