This book brings together a host of internationally recognised scholars to provide an interdisciplinary perspective on the representation of the child in cinema

This collection seeks to broaden the discussion of the child image by close analysis of the child and childhood as depicted in non-Western cinemas. Each essay o

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

In this, the first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish cinema, Sarah Wright explores the ways that the cinematic child comes to represent ‘prostheti

Ghastly and ghostly children, 'dirty little white girls', the child as witness and as victim, have always played an important part in the history of cinema, as