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