Carolina Rocha is an associate professor of Foreign Languages and Literature at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

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• PART I: MEMORY AND TRAUMA Introduction; C.Rocha & G.Seminet Surviving Childhood: The Nepantla Generation as Portrayed in On the Empty Balcony by Jomí García Ascot (1962); J.Tuñón Fairies, Maquis, and Children Without Schools: Romantic Childhood and Civil War in Pan's Labyrinth; A.G.L.Quiñones A Child's Voice, a Country's Silence: Ethnicity, Class and Gender in El Ilencio de Neto (1996); G.Seminet Children's Views of State-Sponsored Violence in Latin America: Machuca and The Year My Parents Went on Vacation; C.Rocha Enabling, Enacting and Envisioning Societal Complicity: Daniel Bustamante's Andrés No Quiere Dormir la Siesta (2009); J.Breckenridge PART II: CHILDHOOD AND PATHS TO CITIZENSHIP IN FILM Innocence Interrupted: Neoliberalism and the End of Childhood in Recent Mexican Cinema; I.S.Prado From Buñuel to Eimbcke: Orphanhood in Recent Mexican Cinema; D.Russek Through 'Their' Eyes: Internal and External Focalizing Agents in the Representation of Children and Violence in Iberian and Latin American Film; E.Ledesma Roads to Emancipation: Sentimental Education in Viva Cuba; R.D.Zambrana PART III: GENDER IDENTITY Constructing Ethical Attention in Lucía Puenzo's XXY: Cinematic Strategy, Intersubjectivity, and Intersexuality; J.Zamostny Cinematic Portrayals of Teen Girls in Brazil's Urban Peripheries: Realist and Subjectivist Approaches to Adolescent Dreams and Fantasy in Sonhos Roubados and Nina; J.Draper No Longer Young: Childhood, Family, and Trauma in Las Mantenidas Sin Sueños; B. Urraca