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Blood Circuits: Contemporary Argentine Horror Cinema

Blood Circuits: Contemporary Argentine Horror Cinema

Risner, Jonathan

Paperback

Series: Suny Latin American Cinema

Film StudiesSouth American History

ISBN10: 1438470762
ISBN13: 9781438470764
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jul 2 2019
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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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