ISBN:
9781137564955
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XXXII, 204 p. 11 illus)
Series Statement:
Springer eBook Collection
Series Statement:
Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
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Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Culture Study and teaching
;
Sex (Psychology)
;
Gender expression
;
Gender identity
;
Motion pictures and television
;
Sociology
;
Culture Study and teaching
;
Motion pictures and television
;
Sociology
;
Sex (Psychology)
;
Gender expression
;
Gender identity
Abstract:
Gender and Sexuality in Latin American Horror Cinema explores the different mechanisms and strategies through which horror films attempt to reinforce or contest gender relations and issues of sexual identity in the continent. The book explores issues of machismo, marianismo, homosociality, bromance, among others through the lens of horror narratives and, especially, it offers an analysis of monstrosity and the figure of the monster as an outlet to play out socio-sexual anxieties in different societies or gender groups. The author looks at a wide rage of films from countries such as Cuba, Peru, Mexico and Argentina and draws points of commonality, as well as comparing essential differences, between the way that horror fictions - considered by many as low-brow cinema - can be effective to delve into the way that sexuality and gender operates and circulates in the popular imaginary in these regions
DOI:
10.1057/978-1-137-56495-5
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