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The history of the horror genre in Latin American literature and film is yet to be written, as suggested in Bravo Rozas 1994. Unlike in Europe, the United States, and Japan, there is no consolidated academic bibliography on the subject. There are no “Latin American Horror Film” and “Latin American Horror Literature” books available.
Aug 15, 2014 · Spanish horror cinema often works to subvert gender norms at the level of representation. Key here is the recurring figure of the female protagonist. In his seminal essay on the connection between Spanish art and horror cinema, Andrew Willis demonstrates how art filmmakers working under Franco used the horror movie as a vehicle for expressing their opposition to fascism.
- Ian Olney
- 2014
Nov 20, 2012 · Spanish Horror Film is the first in-depth exploration of the genre in Spain from the 'horror boom' of the late 1960s and early 1970s to the most recent production in the current renaissance of Spanish genre cinema, through a study of its production, circulation, regulation and consumption. The examination of this rich cinematic tradition is firmly located in relation to broader historical and ...
May 24, 2020 · This chapter discusses the evolution of Spanish horror film in the past decades. First, it examines the growth of horror in the context of film co-productions in the 1960s and 1970s. Second, it ...
Therefore, working from Antonio Lázaro-Reboll’s work on the ‘archaeology of horror’ put forward in The Spanish Horror Film (2012), this paper (which is part of a monograph on the subject) will similarly seek to “reintegrate marginal filmic and cultural practices” (p.7) into 21st century U.S. horror.
- Xavier Aldana Reyes
This critical anthology sets out to explore the boom that horror cinema and TV productions have experienced in Spain in the past two decades. It uses a range of critical and theoretical perspectives to examine a broad variety of films and filmmakers, such as works by Alejandro Amenábar, Álex de la Iglesia, Pedro Almodóvar, Guillermo del Toro, Juan Antonio Bayona, and Jaume Balagueró and ...
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The financial potential of horror films has long been appreciated by producers and others in control of film finance. Many of the most successful horror films of recent decades, from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974) to Paranormal Activity (Oren Peli, 2007), have been made on low budgets and have subsequently found large audiences that in turn ensured they provided high returns ...
