Blood Circuits: Contemporary Argentine Horror Cinema

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Argentine Horror Cinema: A Constellation of Miracles
Chapter One Reaches: The National and Transnational Coordinates of Argentine Horror Film Culture
	Argentine Horror Film Culture in Argentina
	Coherence in the Margin
	The Pleasure of a Margin: Argentine Horror as Paracinematic
	Argentine Horror Film Culture Elsewhere
	The Loop of Horror
Chapter Two Telling Carnage: Spectacles and Spaces of Neoliberalism
	Signs of Neoliberalism: Zombie Multitudes in Plaga Zombie: Zona Mutante
	Male/Female, City/Country
	Queering the Suburbs
Chapter Three Cinematic Body Snatching: English-Language Argentine Horror Cinema and Systems of Paranoia
	Here, Have Some Paranoia
	Death Knows Your Name: Systems Within Systems
	Dead Line: My Own Private Paranoia
	Torn at the Gut: Body Horror and the Last Gateway
	Criollo Body Snatchers, Shared Paranoia, and Allegories of Circulation
Chapter Four Where Punk and Horror Meet: Argentine Punk/Horror, “Cine under,” and Gore as Affect
	The Punk in Argentine Cinema
	Punk unto Itself: Punk as a Cinematic Genre in Argentina
	The Punk in Punk/Horror
	Convergence: The Meshing of Punk and Horror
	Punk/Horror on Screen
	Horror in the Hands of Punk: Horror Made Raw
	Punk Gore and Affect
Chapter Five Is It There? It’s Not There. Now It’s There.: Spectral Dynamics of the Last Dictatorship in Argentine Horror Cinema
	Sometimes a Kidnapping Is Just a Kidnapping
	Fitting Genres: Moments of Horror in Crónica De Una Fuga
	Laughter and Memory: Parodies of Dirty War Operatives in Argentine Horror Cinema
	The Threat of Youth
	Striking Back: Youth and Magic
	A Critical Laughter
Conclusion
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index