The two cines con niño : genre and the child protagonist in over fifty years of Spanish film (1955-2010) / Erin K. Hogan.

Introduction : the two cines con niño : the ventiloquism, dialogism and biopolitics of the children of Franco in genre film -- The black market and the stolen children of Franco in Demonios en el jardin -- The appropriative and carnivalesque ventriloquism of altar boys from Joselito in El pequeño ruiseñor to Ignacio in La mala educación -- Ventriloquism, kidnapping and the carnivalesque in Marisol's Tómbola -- Adopting, adapting and appropriating in the cines con niño : Un rayo de luz and El viaje de Carol -- Prosopopeia and the gothic child from Marcelino pan y vino to El orfanato -- Dialogism and ritual function of the nuevo cine con niño : El espíritu de la colmena, Secretos del corazón and El laberinto del fauno -- Queering post-war childhood in Urte ilunak and Pa negre -- The transatlantic dialogism in narrative and aesthetics of Bildungsfilms : La lengua de las mariposas, Machuca, El espíritu de la colmena, El premio, El laberinto del fauno and Infancia clandestina -- Conclusion : Spanish movies : genre, nation and Spanish movie.

This is the first genre study of child-starred cinemas from Spain. It illuminates continuities in the political use of the child protagonist in over fifty years of Spanish cinema and how the child-starred genres deploy the concept of childhood to retrospectively define the nation and its future. From Francoist popular to oppositional auteur films, and including Spanish and Latin American cinema, this monograph examines commonalities in aesthetics, narratives and genre functions. It demonstrates the impact of these narratives within Spanish film history and Francoist biopolitics, as well as providing a broader transatlantic perspective on the genre in select productions from Chile and Argentina.

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