Overview
- Relates to general discourses in Latin American Film, Horror Film, Latin American Cultural Studies, Transnational Studies, and Immigration Studies
- Details the connections between Latin American Gothic and European Gothic, as well as ways the transgressive nature of these boundaries
- Approaches term horror from several perspectives, including the psychoanalytic analysis on the uncanny, the abject, and the monstrous-feminine
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodríguez is Head of Spanish Instruction and Latin American Studies at The New School in Atlanta, GA, USA, and Professor of Liberal Arts at Savannah College of Art and Design, USA. His research interests include horror cinema, gothic literature, migration studies, and post-humanism. He is author of Selva de fantasmas. El gótico en la literatura y el cine latinoamericanos (2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Migration and Politics of Monsters in Latin American Cinema
Authors: Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodríguez
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97250-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97249-7Published: 09 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07324-4Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97250-3Published: 26 September 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 231
Topics: Latin American Cinema and TV, Global Cinema and TV, Genre, Latin American Culture, Global/International Culture