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The Migration and Politics of Monsters in Latin American Cinema

Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodríguez author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG

Published:9th Oct '18

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The Migration and Politics of Monsters in Latin America proposes a cinematic cartography of contemporary Latin American horror films that take up the idea of the American continent as a space of radical otherness, or monstrosity, and use it for political purposes. The book explores how Latin American film directors migrate foreign horror tropes to create cinematographic horror hybrids that reclaim and transform monstrosity as a form of historical rewriting. By emphasizing the specificities of the Latin American experience, this book contributes to broad scholarship on horror cinema, at the same time connecting the horror tradition with contemporary discussions on violence, migration, fear of immigrants, and the rewriting of colonial discourses.

ISBN: 9783319972497

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 454g

231 pages

1st ed. 2018