This book 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. It offers an analysis of monstrosity and the figure of the monster as an outlet to play out socio-sexual anxieties in contemporary culture.
This book 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. It offers an analysis of monstrosity and the figure of the monster as an outlet to play out socio-sexual anxieties in contemporary culture.
Gustavo E. Subero is a researcher in Latin American Cultural Studies at Birkbeck University of London, UK. He has worked in a number of universities across the UK teaching courses on Latin American cultural studies and Hispanic/Global cinema, as well as courses on sex, sexuality and global media and representation(s) to undergraduate and postgraduate students. His main areas of research are queer masculinity in film and visual media, queer authorship, exploitation cinemas, low-brow culture, queer literatures and literatures of the diaspora, representations of health and illness in contemporary culture and the cultural symbolism of seropositivity society.
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Introduction: Santa Sangre and the Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Latin American Horror Cinema
1. Challenging Patriarchy in the Gothic Horror Mexican Cinema
2. Zé de Caixão and the Queering of Monstrosity in Latin America
3. Monstrous and Murdered Machos: Horror and the Crisis of Latin American Masculinity
4. Bloody Femininities: The Horrors of Marianismo and Maternity in Baby Shower and Habitaciones para Turistas
5. Bromance, Homosociality and the Crisis of Masculinity in the Latin American Zombie Movie
