Jonathan Risner

Blood Circuits (eBook, ePUB)

Contemporary Argentine Horror Cinema

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Examines how recent Argentine horror films engage with the legacies of dictatorship and neoliberalism.

Argentina is a dominant player in Latin American film, known for its documentaries, detective films, melodramas, and auteur cinema. In the past twenty years, however, the country has also emerged as a notable producer of horror films. Blood Circuits focuses on contemporary Argentine horror cinema and the various "cinematic pleasures" it offers national and transnational audiences. Jonathan Risner begins with an overview of horror film culture in Argentina and beyond. He then examines select films grouped according to various criteria: neoliberalism and urban, rural, and suburban spaces; English-language horror films; gore and affect in punk/horror films; and the legacies of the last dictatorship (1976-1983). While keenly aware of global horror trends, Risner argues that these films provide unprecedented ways of engaging with the consequences of authoritarianism and neoliberalism in Argentina.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781438470771
• Artikelnr.: 60535887

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Risner is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Indiana University Bloomington.