Gender and Sexuality in Latin American Horror Cinema

Gustavo E. Subero is a researcher in Latin American Cultural Studies at Birkbeck University of London, UK. He has worked in a number of universities across the UK teaching courses on Latin American cultural studies and Hispanic/Global cinema, as well as courses on sex, sexuality and global media and representation(s) to undergraduate and postgraduate students. His main areas of research are queer masculinity in film and visual media, queer authorship, exploitation cinemas, low-brow culture, queer literatures and literatures of the diaspora, representations of health and illness in contemporary culture and the cultural symbolism of seropositivity society.

• Introduction: Santa Sangre and the Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Latin American Horror Cinema1. Challenging Patriarchy in the Gothic Horror Mexican Cinema2. Zé de Caixão and the Queering of Monstrosity in Latin America3. Monstrous and Murdered Machos: Horror and the Crisis of Latin American Masculinity4. Bloody Femininities: The Horrors of Marianismo and Maternity in Baby Shower and Habitaciones para Turistas5. Bromance, Homosociality and the Crisis of Masculinity in the Latin American Zombie Movie