Blood Circuits

Contemporary Argentine Horror Cinema

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de Jonathan Risner

Type: Studies
Sujet: Countries > Latin America
Mots Clés: horror, Argentina
Année d'édition: 2019
Editeur: State University of New York Press
Collection: SUNY series in Latin American cinema
1ere édition: 2018
Langue: anglais

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Paperback • 276 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

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978-1-4384-7076-4

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Description de l'ouvrage:
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.

À propos de l'auteur :
Jonathan Risner is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Indiana University Bloomington.

Revue de Presse:
"Blood Circuits is an important and much-needed contribution to the fields of Latin American cinema and popular culture, and genre film studies with a focus on horror cinema. It offers original and innovative directions that will pave the way for new studies in different areas of film studies: the internationalization of horror that unfolds a problematic relationship between the United States and the Global South, the use of punk horror as a form of affect, and the development of new kinds of pleasures and displeasures in the spectator. " — Victoria Ruétalo, coeditor of Latsploitation, Exploitation Cinemas, and Latin America

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