TY - BOOK ID - 46206045 TI - The Child in Contemporary Latin American Cinema PY - 2019 SN - 1137528222 113753060X PB - New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Motion pictures, American. KW - Ethnology-Latin America. KW - Motion pictures. KW - Youth-Social life and customs. KW - Communication. KW - Latin American Cinema and TV. KW - Latin American Culture. KW - Global Cinema and TV. KW - Youth Culture. KW - Media and Communication. KW - Communication, Primitive KW - Mass communication KW - Sociology KW - Cinema KW - Feature films KW - Films KW - Movies KW - Moving-pictures KW - Audio-visual materials KW - Mass media KW - Performing arts KW - American motion pictures KW - Moving-pictures, American KW - Foreign films KW - History and criticism KW - Ethnology—Latin America. KW - Youth—Social life and customs. KW - Children in motion pictures. KW - Childhood in motion pictures KW - Motion pictures UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46206045 AB - 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. Deborah Martin combines theoretical readings of the child in cinema and culture, with discussions of the place of the child in specific national, regional and political contexts, to develop in-depth analyses and establish regional comparisons and trends. She pays particular attention to the narrative and stylistic techniques at play in the creation of the child's perspective, and to ways in which the presence of the child precipitates experiments with film aesthetics. Bringing together fresh readings of well-known films with attention to a range of little-studied works, The Child in Contemporary Latin American Cinema examines films from the recent and contemporary period, focussing on topics such as the death of the child in ‘street child’ films, the role of the child in post-dictatorship filmmaking and the use of child characters to challenge gender and sexual ideologies. The book also aims to place those analyses in a historical context, tracing links with important precursors, and paying attention to the legacy of the child’s figuring in the mid-century movements of melodrama and the New Latin American Cinema. ER -