Blood Circuits
Contemporary Argentine Horror Cinema
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2019
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-7076-4 (ISBN)
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-7076-4 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Jonathan Risner is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Indiana University Bloomington.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Argentine Horror Cinema: A Constellation of Miracles
1. Reaches: The National and Transnational Coordinates of Argentine Horror Film Culture
2. Telling Carnage: Spectacles and Spaces of Neoliberalism
3. Cinematic Body Snatching: English-Language Argentine Horror Cinema and Systems of Paranoia
4. Where Punk and Horror Meet: Argentine Punk/Horror, "Cine under," and Gore as Affect
5. Is It There? It’s Not There. Now It’s There.: Spectral Dynamics of the Last Dictatorship in Argentine Horror Cinema
Conclusion
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | SUNY series in Latin American Cinema |
| Zusatzinfo | 3 Tables, black and white; 10 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 372 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4384-7076-2 / 1438470762 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4384-7076-4 / 9781438470764 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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