Overview
- Examines the political and narrative potential of teenage protagonists and acknowledges the distinct emotional registers at play throughout adolescence
- Features chapters authored by country-specialists on a variety of national contexts and visual media, ranging from Mexico and Colombia to Brazil and Argentina; fiction film to documentary to animation
- Presents innovative, interdisciplinary perspectives that are situated at the crossroads of Latin American Cultural Studies, World Cinema, Childhood Studies, and aesthetic theory
Part of the book series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures (NDLAC)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Gender and Sexuality
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About this book
This volume explores the recent ‘adolescent turn’ in contemporary Latin American cinema, challenging many of the underlying assumptions about the nature of youth and distinguishing adolescence as a distinct and vital area of study. Its contributors examine the narrative and political potential of teenage protagonists in a range of recent films from the region, acknowledging the distinct emotional registers that are at play throughout adolescence and releasing teenage subjectivities from restrictive critical and theoretical emphases on theories of childhood.
As the first academic study to examine the figure of the adolescent in contemporary Latin American film, New Visions of Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema thus presents a timely and innovative analysis of issues of sexuality and gender, political and domestic violence and social class, and will be of significant interest to students and researchers in Latin American Studies, Cultural Studies, World Cinema and Childhood Studies.
Reviews
“This exciting volume provides original insights into the representation of adolescence in contemporary Latin American cinema, and commences with an excellent and rigorous introduction by Maguire and Randall. Gender acts as a key framework for the book, but these high quality essays are also tied together by their interest in film and the senses, and by the emerging tropes they collectively identify as central to thesenew depictions of adolescence. New Visions of Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema is an important contribution to the field.” (Deborah Martin, Senior Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies, University College London, UK)
“This is a rich collection of essays that offers original and important insights into contemporary Latin American cinema through the pivotal but critically neglected figure of the adolescent. Written by leading experts in the field, the book sheds new light on Latin American film culture. This book is a fascinating read for scholars of youth studies, gender, sexuality and cinema and Latin American cinema.” (Deborah Shaw, Reader in Film Studies, University of Portsmouth, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Geoffrey Maguire is a Junior Research Fellow in Latin American Studies at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, UK. He is author of The Politics of Postmemory: Violence and Victimhood in Contemporary Argentine Culture (2017).
Rachel Randall is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Lecturer in Hispanic Media and Digital Communications at the University of Bristol, UK. She is author of Children on the Threshold in Contemporary Latin American Cinema (2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Visions of Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema
Editors: Geoffrey Maguire, Rachel Randall
Series Title: New Directions in Latino American Cultures
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89381-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89380-8Published: 06 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07755-6Published: 19 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-89381-5Published: 20 July 2018
Series ISSN: 1554-4028
Series E-ISSN: 2634-520X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 228
Number of Illustrations: 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Latin American Cinema and TV, Latin American Culture, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Global Cinema and TV, Youth Culture