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Brazilian Horror Cinema in the Twenty-First Century Neo-Fascism, Disaffection, Resistance.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dennison, Stephanie.
- Series:
- Tamesis Studies in Popular and Digital Cultures Series.
- Tamesis Studies in Popular and Digital Cultures Series ; v.6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horror films--Brazil.
- Horror films.
- Motion pictures--Brazil.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (327 p.).
- Place of Publication:
- Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, Limited, 2025.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Contemporary Screen Horror in Brazil
- Part 1: The Reemergence of Brazilian Horror in the Twenty-first Century
- 1 The Return of Coffin Joe: Embodiment of Evil and Contemporary Brazilian Horror Cinema
- 2 A Time-Traveller's Guide to a Country of Horrors: A Study of Past, Present and Future Reimagined in Brazilian Cinema
- Part 2: Brazilian "Post-Horror"
- 3 Hard Labor and Kill Me Please: Key Moments of Middle-class Horror in Brazil
- 4 Reckoning with the Future: Fear, Resentment and Social Monsters in Neighbouring Sounds
- Part 3: The Curse of Urban Violence in Brazil
- 5 A Glance Through the Window: The Working Class and its Discontents in The Tenants
- 6 Mormaço, Mould and Malaise: Bodies and Urban Space in Conflict
- Part 4: Folk-Horror Brazilian-Style
- 7 Folk Horror in Unsoul and The Famous and the Dead
- 8 Azougue Nazaré: Religious Intolerance in a Secular Country
- Part 5: Race, Gender and Brazil's Colonial Past
- 9 Plantation Hauntings in The Devil's Knot
- 10 Good Manners: Colonialism and Structural Racism in Brazilian Horror Cinema
- Part 6: Social Cannibalism
- 11 Always Feeding Off the Poor: Sex, Blood and Class Struggle in The Cannibal Club
- 12 A Cordial Murder: Horror and Social Tensions in Friendly Beast
- Part 7: Teen Horror on Screen
- 13 The Joy: Brazilian Teen Horror Fuelled by Boredom
- 14 The Young Baumanns: Nostalgia, Ruins and Images of a Country in a State of Latency
- Part 8: Tropical Dystopias
- 15 We are Born in Flames: Living with Ghosts, Revamping Pasts and Futures in Tremor Iê
- 16 Bacurau Flies at Dusk: Film, Viral Cultural Politics, COVID-19, Hauntings and Futures
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Dennison, Stephanie Brazilian Horror Cinema in the Twenty-First Century
- ISBN:
- 9781805435457
- 1805435450
- 9781805435440
- 1805435442
- Publisher Number:
- 40032611116
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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