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The Migration and Politics of Monsters in Latin American Cinema

The Migration and Politics of Monsters in Latin American Cinema

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TelevisionAnthropologyFilm Studies

ISBN10: 3319972499
ISBN13: 9783319972497
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Oct 9 2018
Pages: 231
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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.

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