Blood Circuits : Contemporary Argentine Horror Cinema (Suny series in Latin American Cinema)

Risner, Jonathan

State University of New York Press（2018/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 276 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781438470757
• DDC分類 791.4361640982

Full Description

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.

Contents

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