Blood Circuits by Jonathan Risner

Blood Circuits by Jonathan Risner

focuses on contemporary Argentine horror cinema and the various "cinematic pleasures" it offers national and transnational audiences. Jonathan Risner begins with an overview of horror film culture in Argentina and beyond. He then examines select films grouped according to various criteria: neoliberalism and urban, rural, and suburban spaces; English-language horror films; gore and affect in punk/horror films; and the legacies of the last dictatorship (1976-1983). While keenly aware of global horror trends, Risner argues that these films provide unprecedented ways of engaging with the consequences of authoritarianism and neoliberalism in Argentina.

"Blood Circuits is an important and much-needed contribution to the fields of Latin American cinema and popular culture, and genre film studies with a focus on horror cinemaIt offers original and innovative directions that will pave the way for new studies in different areas of film studies: the internationalization of horror that unfolds a problematic relationship between the United States and the Global South, the use of punk horror as a form of affect, and the development of new kinds of pleasures and displeasures in the spectator." — Victoria Ruétalo, coeditor of Latsploitation, Exploitation Cinemas, and Latin America

Jonathan Risner is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Indiana University Bloomington.

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ISBN 13	9781438470757
ISBN 10	1438470754
Title	Blood Circuits
Author	Jonathan Risner
Series	Suny Series In Latin American Cinema
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	State University of New York Press
Year published	2018-08-01
Number of pages	276
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