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Selva de fantasmas

Autor: Eljaiek-rodríguez, Gabriel

Número de Páginas: 300

Selva de fantasmas examina un segmento de la historia cultural latinoamericana, mediante la llamada tropicalización de lo gótico, un mecanismo de reciclaje y transformación del género gótico. Este dispositivo saca de su contexto a personajes y temas para hacer visibles las dinámicas de construcción del otro y enunciar aquello que es innombrable: la violencia, las desigualdades sociales o los tabúes culturales, como el incesto, según sea el caso. Al proponer la existencia de este mecanismo, el libro rompe —en los estudios literarios, cinematográfi cos y culturales latinoamericanos— con cadenas de relaciones temáticas y geográfi cas fi jas del gótico, como la tríada vampiro-castillo-Transilvania, y lo reubica en entornos suramericanos, que no se consideraban aptos para el género: la selva del Chaco, la tierra caliente colombiana y la selva urbana de Ciudad de México. A través de un recorrido por los textos de Horacio Quiroga, las películas de Carlos Mayolo, las de Luis Ospina o las mexicanas protagonizadas por El Santo, entre otros, Selva de fantasmas revela los mecanismos con los cuales el género gótico ha adquirido su propia identidad en Latinoamérica.

Selva de fantasmas

Autor: Gabriel Andrés Eljaiek Rodríguez

Número de Páginas: 222

The Migration and Politics of Monsters in Latin American Cinema

Autor: Gabriel Eljaiek-rodríguez

Número de Páginas: 235

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.

Baroque Aesthetics in Contemporary American Horror

Autor: Gabriel Eljaiek-rodríguez

Número de Páginas: 0

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....