Overview
- Places the contemporary representation of the child in a historical context
- Examines the themes with which the figure of the child is associated
- Discusses how the narrative and stylistic techniques create the child's perspective in Latin American cinema
- Analyses the relationship between dominant myths of the child, Latin American cultural preoccupations and cinematic representation
Part of the book series: Global Cinema (GLOBALCINE)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Deborah Martin is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies at University College London, UK. She is author of Painting, Literature and Film in Colombian Feminine Culture (2012) and The Cinema of Lucrecia Martel (2016), and editor of Latin American Women Filmmakers: Production, Politics, Poetics (with Deborah Shaw, 2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Child in Contemporary Latin American Cinema
Authors: Deborah Martin
Series Title: Global Cinema
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52822-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-53060-8Published: 05 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-52822-3Published: 04 January 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-5951
Series E-ISSN: 2634-596X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 245
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Latin American Cinema and TV, Latin American Culture, Global Cinema and TV, Youth Culture, Media and Communication