New Visions of Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: Visualising Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema—Gender, Class and Politics

   • Geoffrey Maguire, Rachel Randall

   Pages 1-33

3. Gender and Sexuality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35

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   2. Visual Displeasure: Adolescence and the Erotics of the Queer Male Gaze in Marco Berger’s Ausente

      • Geoffrey Maguire

      Pages 37-57

   3. (Re)pairing Adolescent Masculinities: The Neo-fraternal Social Contract and the Penal State in Hoje eu quero voltar sozinho and Beira-Mar

      • Ramiro Armas

      Pages 59-79

   4. Sensorial Youths: Gender, Eroticism and Agency in Lucrecia Martel’s Rey muerto

      • Inela Selimović

      Pages 81-98

4. Gender and Class

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99

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   2. “Eu não sou o meu pai!”: Deception, Intimacy and Adolescence in (the) Casa grande

      • Rachel Randall

      Pages 101-126

   3. Young, Male and Middle Class: Representations of Masculinity in Mexican Film

      • Georgia Seminet

      Pages 127-143

   4. Beyond Pink or Blue: Portrayals of Adolescence in Latin American Animated Film

      • Milton Fernando González-Rodríguez

      Pages 145-161

5. Gender and Politics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. Growing Pains: Young People and Violence in Peru’s Fiction Cinema

      • Sarah Barrow

      Pages 165-181

   3. Tragic Adolescence in Michel Franco’s Heli and Amat Escalante’s Después de Lucía

      • Sophie Dufays

      Pages 183-202

   4. From Girlhood to Adulthood: Colombian Adolescence in María, llena eres de gracia and La sirga

      • Carolina Rocha

      Pages 203-221

6. Back Matter

   Pages 223-228

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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.

• Latin American Cinema
• Contemporary Latin American Visual Culture
• Adolescence in Latin America
• Adolescence on Screen
• Teenagers on Screen
• adolescent turn
• teenage subjectivities
• childhood studies

“Geoffrey Maguire and Rachel Randall have assembled a striking collection of essays on adolescence in contemporary Latin American cinema, in what is a tightly edited volume that covers a range of productions from the continent. The quality of the essays is excellent throughout and the volume includes a very useful introductory essay, written by the editors, which convincingly makes the case for the important contribution of this study to both World Cinema and Latin American cultural studies.” (Stephanie Dennison, Professor of Brazilian Studies, University of Leeds, UK)

“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)

• Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Geoffrey Maguire

• School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

  Rachel Randall

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).

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