Innocent Creatures: Child as Commodity and Animal in Antonio Mercero’s La guerra de papá (1977) and Tobi, el niño con alas (1978)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Inhabiting the In-Between 3
5. Impossible Returns: The Child as Self and Other in Carlos Saura’s El jardín de las delicias (1970) and La prima Angélica (1974) 26
6. Innocent Creatures: Child as Commodity and Animal in Antonio Mercero’s La guerra de papá (1977) and Tobi, el niño con alas (1978) 66
7. Oscillating Encounters: Alignment and Foreclosure in Víctor Erice’s El espíritu de la colmena (1973) and El sur (1983) 107
8. Betwixt and Between: Liminal Adolescence in Jaime de Armiñán’s El amor del capitán Brando (1974) and El nido (1980) 146
9. Coda 194
10. Notes 201
11. Bibliography 221
12. Index 233