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1 online resource |
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SUNY series in Latin American Cinema |
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SUNY series in Latin American cinema.
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| Contents |
Intro; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Argentine Horror Cinema: A Constellation of Miracles; Chapter One Reaches: The National and Transnational Coordinates of Argentine Horror Film Culture; Argentine Horror Film Culture in Argentina; Coherence in the Margin; The Pleasure of a Margin: Argentine Horror as Paracinematic; Argentine Horror Film Culture Elsewhere; The Loop of Horror; Chapter Two Telling Carnage: Spectacles and Spaces of Neoliberalism; Signs of Neoliberalism: Zombie Multitudes in Plaga Zombie: Zona Mutante; Male/Female, City/Country |
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Queering the SuburbsChapter Three Cinematic Body Snatching: English-Language Argentine Horror Cinema and Systems of Paranoia; Here, Have Some Paranoia; Death Knows Your Name: Systems Within Systems; Dead Line: My Own Private Paranoia; Torn at the Gut: Body Horror and the Last Gateway; Criollo Body Snatchers, Shared Paranoia, and Allegories of Circulation; Chapter Four Where Punk and Horror Meet: Argentine Punk/Horror, "Cine under," and Gore as Affect; The Punk in Argentine Cinema; Punk unto Itself: Punk as a Cinematic Genre in Argentina; The Punk in Punk/Horror |
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Convergence: The Meshing of Punk and HorrorPunk/Horror on Screen; Horror in the Hands of Punk: Horror Made Raw; Punk Gore and Affect; Chapter Five Is It There? It's Not There. Now It's There.: Spectral Dynamics of the Last Dictatorship in Argentine Horror Cinema; Sometimes a Kidnapping Is Just a Kidnapping; Fitting Genres: Moments of Horror in Crónica De Una Fuga; Laughter and Memory: Parodies of Dirty War Operatives in Argentine Horror Cinema; The Threat of Youth; Striking Back: Youth and Magic; A Critical Laughter; Conclusion; Notes; Filmography; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Examines how recent Argentine horror films engage with the legacies of dictatorship and neoliberalism |
| Bibliography |
Includes filmography (pages 209-211), bibliographical references (pages 213-236) and index |
| Subject |
Horror films -- Argentina -- History and criticism
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Horror films
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Argentina
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781438470771 |
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1438470770 |
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