Children on the Threshold in Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Nature, Gender, and Agency analyzes child and adolescent protagonists in Latin American cinema.

What is the child for Latin American cinema? This book aims to answer that question, tracing the common tendencies of the representation of the child in the cin

This volume explores the recent ‘adolescent turn’ in contemporary Latin American cinema, challenging many of the underlying assumptions about the nature of

This updated and expanded edition gives critical analyses of 23 Latin American films from the last 20 years, including the addition of four films from Bolivia.

Growing up in Latin America contributes to the growing body of scholarship on the representation of children and minors in contemporary Latin American literatur