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This book traces a trend that has emerged in recent years within
the modern panorama of American horror film and television, the
concurrent-and often overwhelming-use of multiple stock characters,
themes and tropes taken from classics of the genre. American Horror
Story, Insidious and The Conjuring are examples of a filmic
tendency to address a series of topics and themes so vast that at
first glance each taken separately would seem to suffice for
individual films or shows. This book explores this trend in its
visible connections with American Horror, but also with cultural
and artistic movements from outside the US, namely Baroque art and
architecture, Asian Horror, and European Horror. It analyzes how
these hybrid products are constructed and discusses the
socio-political issues that they raise. The repeated and excessive
barrage of images, tropes and scenarios from distinct subgenres of
iconic horror films come together to make up an aesthetic that is
referred to in this book as Baroque Horror. In many ways similar to
the reactions provoked by the artistic movement of the same name
that flourished in the XVII century, these productions induce
shock, awe, fear, and surprise. Eljaiek-Rodriguez details how
American directors and filmmakers construct these narratives using
different and sometimes disparate elements that come together to
function as a whole, terrifying the audience through their frenetic
accumulation of images, tropes and plot twists. The book also
addresses some of the effects that these complex films and series
have produced both in the panorama of contemporary horror, as well
as in how we understand politics in a divisive world that pushes
for ideological homogenizations.
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.
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.
This book traces a trend that has emerged in recent years within
the modern panorama of American horror film and television, the
concurrent-and often overwhelming-use of multiple stock characters,
themes and tropes taken from classics of the genre. American Horror
Story, Insidious and The Conjuring are examples of a filmic
tendency to address a series of topics and themes so vast that at
first glance each taken separately would seem to suffice for
individual films or shows. This book explores this trend in its
visible connections with American Horror, but also with cultural
and artistic movements from outside the US, namely Baroque art and
architecture, Asian Horror, and European Horror. It analyzes how
these hybrid products are constructed and discusses the
socio-political issues that they raise. The repeated and excessive
barrage of images, tropes and scenarios from distinct subgenres of
iconic horror films come together to make up an aesthetic that is
referred to in this book as Baroque Horror. In many ways similar to
the reactions provoked by the artistic movement of the same name
that flourished in the XVII century, these productions induce
shock, awe, fear, and surprise. Eljaiek-Rodriguez details how
American directors and filmmakers construct these narratives using
different and sometimes disparate elements that come together to
function as a whole, terrifying the audience through their frenetic
accumulation of images, tropes and plot twists. The book also
addresses some of the effects that these complex films and series
have produced both in the panorama of contemporary horror, as well
as in how we understand politics in a divisive world that pushes
for ideological homogenizations.
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