The Nightmares of Presence : Space and Place in Spanish Gothic and Horror Film.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davies, Ann, 1961- author.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Spain--History.

Motion pictures.

Horror films--Spain--History and criticism.

Horror films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Summary:

"This book explores the role of setting in inspiring fear and wonder through audiovisual media. With the primary aim of marrying the spatial turn in cultural and film studies with genre study of horror and Gothic film, Davies explores how different landscapes, spaces and places enable the subject to interact with the terrors they encounter and confront. Case studies include The Devil's Backbone (Guillermo del Toro), [.REC ](Jaume Balagueró), Insensibles (Painless, Juan Carlos Medina), Los cronocrímenes (Time Crimes, Nacho Vigalondo), and El día de la bestia (The Day of the Beast), among others"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The past is a different country: spatial displacement in the Franco era

The haunted houses of Jaume Balageuro

For whom the school bell tolls: the nightmare spaces of children

Et in arcadia ego: horror in paradise

Into the woods: thrills, spills and fractured masculinity

The dystopian city space

Conclusion: Spaces and places for audiences on and off screen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-5013-2735-6

1-5013-2736-4

1-5013-2734-8

OCLC:

1485030232