US-Mexico Borderlands in Contemporary Horror

Anna Marta Marini is currently a postdoctoral researcher for Latinx Studies at Instituto Franklin-UAH, from which she holds a PhD in North American Studies with a focus on Film Studies. Her main research interests are connected to popular culture and critical analysis of political discourse, in particular in the North American context and related to ethnoracial violence and discrimination. In the field of Mexican studies, her work has been focused in particular on state repression, racism, post-revolutionary political discourse and national identity construction especially in film, as well as representations and discourses related to the assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio.

• Foreword (by Frederick Luis Aldama)IntroductionPART I. MIGRANT HORROR1. Hunting Down and Torturing Migrants2. Border Violence Footage Film3. Female Bodies on the BorderPART II. BORDERLAND MONSTROSITY4. Monstrous Mexican Heritage and Folklore5. The Patriarchal Creation of the Female Monster6. Undead and Cannibals in the BorderlandsPART III. WEIRD SOUTHWEST7. Monsters Traversing the Borderlands8. Haunted FrontierPART IV. CRIME AND EXPLOITATION ACROSS THE BORDER9. Evil Forces and Satanic Narcos10. Cross-Border Medical ExploitationBibliography