"Rachel Randall's Children on the Threshold in Contemporary Latin American Cinema [.] stands out as an exciting and original study, solidly grounded in historical and social research on the countries covered, and delivering a series of compelling readings of films ranging from the well-known to the little-studied. [The book contains] multiple valuable insights and emphases [.] from the sustained focus on gender, which complements well existing work in the field, to the attention to middle-class, as well as to more commonly studied underprivileged childhoods, and to Chilean film, in which childhood has been less studied. Randall's range in terms of primary material is impressive too: from film representations of indigeneity, to televisual culture; from documentary and animation to feature-length fiction, this is a rich and varied study which constitutes an important contribution to the field." --Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies.