Gothic imagination in Latin American fiction and film /

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"This work traces how Gothic imagination from the literature and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and twentieth-century US and European film has impacted Latin American literature and film culture. Serrano argues that the Gothic has provided Latin American authors with a way...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Serrano, Carmen A., 1969- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2019.
Sujets:
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), Latin American > History and criticism.
Latin American fiction > European influences.
Latin American fiction > American influences.
Horror films > Latin America > History and criticism.
Roman latino-américain > Influence européenne.
Roman latino-américain > Influence américaine.
Films d'horreur > Amérique latine > Histoire et critique.
ART > Performance.
ART > Reference.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), Latin American.
Horror films.
Latin America.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction. Contextualizing the gothic presence in Latin America
  • Part 1. The context
  • Vampires: the first bat-men are from the Americas
  • Films love monsters: film's arrival in Latin America
  • Part 2. Cultural anxieties and aesthetic critiques
  • Live burials and death-defying beauties
  • Vampires cloaked in metaphor
  • The doppelgänger: split-selves, animal-doubles, and spectral couples
  • Epilogue. Globalized current monsters.

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