This collection focuses on children and adolescents as witnesses and objects of the spectatorial gaze in Latin American and Spanish cinema from 1960 to the present. The carefully chosen essays survey
This anthology explores the role of children and teenagers in Latin American and Spanish Film as protagonists, victims and witnesses of societies polarized by and still grappling with the consequences
An analysis of the use made of five structuring devices, or motifs ? the Bildungsroman, the patriarchal prison, the fairy tale, sexual politics and gender trouble ?in a selection of representative wom