ABSTRACT
This critical anthology sets out to explore the boom that horror cinema and TV productions have experienced in Spain in the past two decades. It uses a range of critical and theoretical perspectives to examine a broad variety of films and filmmakers, such as works by Alejandro Amenábar, Álex de la Iglesia, Pedro Almodóvar, Guillermo del Toro, Juan Antonio Bayona, and Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza. The volume revolves around a set of fundamental questions: What are the causes for this new Spanish horror-mania? What cultural anxieties and desires, ideological motives and practical interests may be behind such boom? Is there anything specifically "Spanish" about the Spanish horror film and TV productions, any distinctive traits different from Hollywood and other European models that may be associated to the particular political, social, economic or cultural circumstances of contemporary Spain?
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|37 pages
The (Postmodern) Gothic
chapter 1|21 pages
Trapped in the House of Mirrors
part II|37 pages
Mothers, Children, Patriarchy, and the Biopolitics of Reproduction
part III|50 pages
Sound, Vision, Media, and Intermediality
chapter 5|19 pages
Dude, Where’s my Phallus?!
chapter 6|16 pages
Why They Film
part IV|93 pages
The [REC] Phenomenon
chapter 10|22 pages
The Medium Is the Monster
part V|32 pages
A Focus on Individual Filmmakers