Migration and Politics of Monsters in Latin American Cinema

Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodríguez is Head of Spanish Instruction and Latin American Studies at The New School in Atlanta, GA, USA, and Professor of Liberal Arts at Savannah College of Art and Design, USA. His research interests include horror cinema, gothic literature, migration studies, and post-humanism. He is author of Selva de fantasmas. El gótico en la literatura y el cine latinoamericanos (2017).

• 1. Introduction: Antipodean Horrors: The return of Latin American Monsters.- 2. Caribbean Monsters: Gothic Migrants in the “Hot-Lands”.- 3. The Mexican Supernatural: Migration in Historical Reverse.- 4. Yūrei in the Andes: National Vengeance through Hybridized Ghosts.- 5. Argentina “Rojo Sangre”: Dictatorships through the Lens of a Gore Film Director.- 6. Contact Zones and Their New Monstrosities.