Children on the Threshold in Contemporary Latin American Cinema : Nature, Gender and Agency
- Submitting institution
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University of Bristol
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 146857138
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Lexington Books
- ISBN
- 9781498555135
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This 110,000-word monograph analyses 12 films from Brazil, Chile and Colombia that were released in 1996-2013. It contends that child characters have taken on a critical representational role in 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. It relates filmmakers’ attempts to evoke children’s ‘agency’ to the recent adoption of a children’s rights discourse in the region. It draws on four years of research and two fieldwork trips and has been described as ‘a crucial contribution to the field’.
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- Non-English
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