The Migration and Politics of Monsters in Latin American Cinema

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Introduction: Antipodean Horrors—The Return of Latin American Monsters (Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodríguez)....Pages 1-24 Caribbean Monsters: Gothic Migrants in the “Hot-Lands” (Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodríguez)....Pages 25-65 The Mexican Supernatural: Migration in Historical Reverse (Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodríguez)....Pages 67-113 Yūrei in the Andes: National Vengeance Through Hybridized Ghosts (Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodríguez)....Pages 115-162 Argentina “Rojo Sangre”: Dictatorships Through the Lens of a Gore Film Director (Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodríguez)....Pages 163-207 Contact Zones and Their New Monstrosities (Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodríguez)....Pages 209-222 Back Matter ....Pages 223-231