The Migration and Politics of Monsters in Latin American Cinema

• Main Author: Eljaiek-Rodríguez, Gabriel (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Motion pictures, American.; Motion pictures.; Film genres.; Ethnology-Latin America.; Culture.; Latin American Cinema and TV.; Global Cinema and TV.; Genre.; Latin American Culture.; Global/International Culture.

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 America...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Antipodean Horrors: The return of Latin American Monsters
• 2. Caribbean Monsters: Gothic Migrants in the "Hot-Lands"
• 3. The Mexican Supernatural: Migration in Historical Reverse
• 4. Yūrei in the Andes: National Vengeance through Hybridized Ghosts
• 5. Argentina "Rojo Sangre": Dictatorships through the Lens of a Gore Film Director
• 6. Contact Zones and Their New Monstrosities.