Abstract

This chapter focuses on the construction of childhood subjectivities in three films: short film Bilu e Joao/Bilu e Joao (Katia Lund‚ 2005), feature film Meu pe de laranja lima/My Sweet Orange Tree (Marcos Bernstein‚ 2012), and documentary Territorio do brincar/Territory of Play (David Reeks and Renata Meirelles‚ 2015). By problematizing the concept of intensive spatium, it argues that cinematic space modulates different perspectives of childhood in these films. Moreover, the chapter coins the expression “child-image” to describe the types of images that articulate intensive qualities of the cinematic space, which opens possibilities for a heterogeneous subjectivity of the Brazilian children portrayed in the films.

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