Representing History, Class, And Gender In Spain And Latin America: Children And Adolescents In Film

Representing History, Class, and Gender in Spain and Latin America Also by Carolina Rocha Masculinities in Contemporary Argentine Popular Cinema (2012) New Trends in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema (2011), coedited with Cacilda Rêgo Violence in Contemporary Argentine Literature and Film (2010), coedited with Elizabeth Montes Garcés Argentinean Cultural Production during the Neoliberal Years (1989–2001) (2007), coedited with Hugo Hortiguera Representing History, Class, and Gender in Spain and Latin America Children and Adolescents in Film Edited by Carolina Rocha and Georgia Seminet representing history, class, and gender in spain and latin america Copyright © Carolina Rocha and Georgia Seminet, 2012. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2012 978-1-137-03086-3 All rights reserved. First published in 2012 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States —a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-44061-0 ISBN 978-1-137-03087-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137030870 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Scribe Inc. First edition: August 2012 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To Evangelina —Carolina Rocha To my parents and brother —Georgia Seminet Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction Carolina Rocha and Georgia Seminet 1 I Memory and Trauma 1 Surviving Childhood: The Nepantla Generation as Portrayed in On the Empty Balcony by Jomí García Ascot Julia Tuñón 33 Fairies, Maquis, and Children without Schools: Romantic Childhood and Civil War in Pan’s Labyrinth Antonio Gómez L-Quiñones 49 A Child’s Voice, A Country’s Silence: Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in El silencio de Neto Georgia Seminet 63 Children’s Views of State-Sponsored Violence in Latin America: Machuca and The Year My Parents Went on Vacation Carolina Rocha 83 2 3 4 5 Enabling, Enacting, and Envisioning Societal Complicity: Daniel Bustamante’s Andrés no quiere dormir la siesta Janis Breckenridge 101 II Childhood and Paths to Citizenship 6 7 Innocence Interrupted: Neoliberalism and the End of Childhood in Recent Mexican Cinema Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado 117 From Buñuel to Eimbcke: Orphanhood in Recent Mexican Cinema Dan Russek 135 viii 8 9 contents Through “Their” Eyes: Internal and External Focalizing Agents in the Representation of Children and Violence in Iberian and Latin American Film Eduardo Ledesma Roads to Emancipation: Sentimental Education in Viva Cuba Rosana Díaz-Zambrana 151 171 III Gender Identity 10 Constructing Ethical Attention in Lucía Puenzo’s XXY: Cinematic Strategy, Intersubjectivity, and Intersexuality Jeffrey Zamostny 11 Cinematic Portrayals of Teen Girls in Brazil’s Urban Peripheries: Realist and Subjectivist Approaches to Adolescent Dreams and Fantasy in Sonhos roubados and Nina Jack Draper 189 205 12 No Longer Young: Childhood, Family, and Trauma in Las mantenidas sin sueños Beatriz Urraca 223 Notes on Contributors