New Visions of Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

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).

1. Introduction: Visualizing Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Gender, Class and Politics (Geoffrey Maguire and Rachel Randall).- 2. Visual Displeasure: Adolescence and the Erotics of the Queer Male Gaze in Marco Berger's Ausente (Geoffrey Maguire).- 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).- 4.Sensorial Youths: Gender, Eroticism, and Agency in Lucrecia Martel's Rey muerto (Inela Selimovic).- 5. "Eu não sou o meu pai!": Deception, Intimacy and Adolescence in (the) Casa grande (Rachel Randall).- 6. Young, Male and Middle Class: Representations of Masculinity in Mexican Film (Georgia Seminet).- 7. Beyond Pink or Blue: Portrayals of Adolescence in Latin American Animated Film (Milton Fernando González-Rodríguez).- 8. Growing Pains: YoungPeople and Violence in Peru's Fiction Cinema (Sarah Barrow).- 9. Tragic Adolescence in Michel Franco's Heli and Amat Escalante's Después de Lucía (Sophie Dufays).- 10. From Girlhood to Adulthood: Colombian Adolescence in María, llena eres de gracia and La sirga (Carolina Rocha).