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. In-depth inquiry within its pages examines films by Pedro Almodovar, Antonio del Amo, Montxo Armendariz, Benjamin Avila, Juan Antonio Bayona, Jose Luis Cuerda, Guillermo del Toro, Victor Erice, Manuel Gutierrez Aragon, Arantxa Lazkano, Luis Lucia, Paula Markovtich, Javier Ruiz Caldera, Carlos Saura, Imanol Uribe, Ladislao Vajda, Agusti Villaronga, and Andres Wood.Los dos cines con nino  es el primer estudio de genero filmico de los cines con nino. Ilumina el uso politico del protagonista infantil durante mas de cincuenta anos en el cine de Espana para definir el pasado, presente y futuro de la nacion. Partiendo del cine popular franquista y los filmes autoriales oposicionales, esta monografia examina los puntos de contacto en las esteticas, narrativas y funciones de genero cinematografico del cine espanol de ayer y hoy y del cine en espanol de Latinoamerica. Demuestra el impacto del dialogismo de estas narrativas dentro de la historia del cine espanol y de la biopolitica franquista y proporciona una perspectiva transatlantica mas amplia al indagar sobre el genero filmico de producciones puntuales de Chile y Argentina. 

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