Brazilian Horror Cinema in the Twenty-First Century

Neo-Fascism, Disaffection, Resistance

Professor Stephanie Dennison, Dr Laura Loguercio Cánepa (Herausgeber)

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326 Seiten

2025
Tamesis Books (Verlag)
978-1-85566-402-9 (ISBN)

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Brazil's pressing socio-political questions as seen through the country's horror-film-influenced audio-visual production between 2008 and 2022.

Since the 2008 release of Embodiment of Evil, the third instalment in the Coffin Joe trilogy, which began with At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul, Brazil's audiovisual industry has been producing an increasing number of unsettling, often violent and frequently dystopian films, reflecting the wide-ranging social, cultural, environmental and economic problems the country is facing.

This edited volume by scholars from Brazil, the United Kingdom and the United States discusses a broad selection of Brazilian audio-visual productions released between 2008 and 2022 which, through their use of aesthetic and narrative devices borrowed from horror cinema, shed light on the country's pressing socio-political questions. Mostly by first-time directors, these productions bear witness to a second 'Golden Age' of Brazilian horror cinema (reflected in new, specialised festivals such as CineFantasy, RioFan, CRASH and Fantaspoa) and ultimately serve to illustrate, in audio-visual form, the tensions at the heart of Brazilian society in the second decade of the twenty-first century.

STEPHANIE DENNISON is Professor of Brazilian Studies and Director of the Centre for World Cinema and Digital Cultures at the University of Leeds, UK. LAURA LOGUERCIO CÁNEPA is Professor in Communication Studies at the Universidade Paulista - UNIP, São Paulo, Brazil. LAURA LOGUERCIO CÁNEPA is Professor in Communication Studies at the Universidade Paulista - UNIP, São Paulo, Brazil. STEPHANIE DENNISON is Professor of Brazilian Studies and Director of the Centre for World Cinema and Digital Cultures at the University of Leeds, UK.

Introduction: Contemporary Screen Horror in Brazil
(Laura Loguercio Cánepa and Stephanie Dennison)

Part One: The Reemergence of Brazilian Horror in the 21st Century
1. The Return of Coffin Joe: Embodiment of Evil and Contemporary Brazilian Horror Cinema - Laura Loguercio Cánepa
2. A Time-Traveller's Guide to a Country of Horrors: A Study of Past, Present and Future Reimagined in Brazilian Cinema - Lucas Procópio Caetano and Alfredo Suppia

Part Two: Brazilian "Post-Horror"
3. Hard Labor and Kill Me Please: Key Moments of Middle-class Horror in Brazil - Laura Loguercio Cánepa and Rodrigo Carreiro
4. Reckoning with the Future: Fear, Resentment and Social Monsters in Neighbouring Sounds - Fernanda Santos and Cecília Mello

Part Three: The Curse of Urban Violence in Brazil
5. A Glance Through the Window: The Working Class and its Discontents in The Tenants - Fabio Camarneiro
6. Mormaço, Mould and Malaise: Bodies and Urban Space in Conflict - João Vitor Leal and Mariana Souto

Part Four: Folk-Horror Brazilian-Style
7. Folk Horror in Unsoul and The Famous and the Dead - Zuleika de Paula Bueno
8. Azougue Nazaré: Religious Intolerance in a Secular Country - Filipe Falcão

Part Five: Race, Gender and Brazil's Colonial Past
9. Plantation Hauntings in The Devil's Knot - Stephanie Dennison
10. Good Manners: Colonialism and Structural Racism in Brazilian Horror Cinema - Yuri Garcia

Part Six: Social Cannibalism
11. Always Feeding Off the Poor: Sex, Blood and Class Struggle in The Cannibal Club - Tiago Monteiro
12. A Cordial Murder: Horror and Social Tensions in Friendly Beast - Rodrigo Carreiro

Part Seven: Teen Horror on Screen
13. The Joy: Brazilian Teen Horror Fuelled by Boredom - Gabriel Perrone
14. The Young Baumanns: Nostalgia, Ruins and Images of a Country in a State of Latency - Ana Maria Acker

Part Eight: Tropical Dystopias
15. We Are Born in Flames: Living with Ghosts, Revamping Pasts and Futures in Tremor Iê - Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha
16. Bacurau Flies at Dusk: Film, Viral Cultural Politics, COVID-19, Hauntings and Futures - Michael M.J. Fischer

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.2.2025
Reihe/Serie	Tamesis Studies in Popular and Digital Cultures
Co-Autor	Alfredo Suppia, Ana Maria Acker, Cecília Mello
Zusatzinfo	30 b/w illus.
Verlagsort	Woodbridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	666 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-85566-402-X / 185566402X
ISBN-13	978-1-85566-402-9 / 9781855664029
Zustand	Neuware