Search for dissertations about: "horror cinema"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words horror cinema.

2. 1. Wicked women and witches. Subversive readings of the female monster in Mexican and Argentinian horror film

   Author : Valeria Alejandra Villegas Lindvall; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; feminist philosophy; decolonial thought; monstrosity; Latin America; horror cinema; Mexico; Argentina; La Llorona; witch; monster;

   Abstract : This thesis accrues to the growing field of Latin American horror scholarship in relation to gender and sexuality, discussing the implications of the representation of the feminized, racialized and/or impoverished monster in relation to Mexican and Argentinian national identity discourses. The thesis looks at two distinct iterations of gendered monstrosity in Mexican and Argentinian visual culture: La Llorona and the bruja (witch), respectively. READ MORE