This volume explores the recent 'adolescent turn' in contemporary Latin American cinema, challenging many of the underlying assumptions about the nature of youth and distinguishing adolescence as a distinct and vital area of study. Its contributors examine the narrative and political potential of teenage protagonists in a range of recent films from the region, acknowledging the distinct emotional registers that are at play throughout adolescence and releasing teenage subjectivities from restrictive critical and theoretical emphases on theories of childhood.

1. Introduction: Visualizing Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Gender, Class and Politics (Geoffrey Maguire and Rachel Randall).- 2. Visual Displeasure: Adolescence and the Erotics of the Queer Male Gaze in Marco Berger's Ausente (Geoffrey Maguire).- 3. (Re)Pairing Adolescent Masculinities: The Neo-Fraternal Social Contract and the Penal State in Hoje eu quero voltar sozinho and Beira-Mar (Ramiro Armas).- 4.Sensorial Youths: Gender, Eroticism, and Agency in Lucrecia Martel's Rey muerto (Inela Selimovic).- 5. "Eu não sou o meu pai!": Deception, Intimacy and Adolescence in (the) Casa grande (Rachel Randall).- 6. Young, Male and Middle Class: Representations of Masculinity in Mexican Film (Georgia Seminet).- 7. Beyond Pink or Blue: Portrayals of Adolescence in Latin American Animated Film (Milton Fernando González-Rodríguez).- 8. Growing Pains: YoungPeople and Violence in Peru's Fiction Cinema (Sarah Barrow).- 9. Tragic Adolescence in Michel Franco's Heli and Amat Escalante's Después de Lucía (Sophie Dufays).- 10. From Girlhood to Adulthood: Colombian Adolescence in María, llena eres de gracia and La sirga (Carolina Rocha).