Brazilian Horror Cinema in the Twenty-First Century

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

Contributor: Stephanie Dennison (Edited by), Laura Loguercio Cánepa (Edited by), Alfredo Suppia (Contributions by), Ana Maria Acker (Contributions by), Cecília Mello (Contributions by), Fabio Camarneiro (Contributions by), Fernanda Santos (Contributions by), Filipe Falcão (Contributions by), Gabriel Perrone (Contributions by), João Vitor Leal (Contributions by), Laura Loguercio Cánepa (Contributions by), Lucas Procópio Caetano (Contributions by), Mariana Souto (Contributions by), Michael MJ Fischer (Contributions by), Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha (Contributions by), Rodrigo Carreiro (Contributions by), Stephanie Dennison (Contributions by), Tiago Monteiro (Contributions by), Yuri Garcia (Contributions by), Zuleika de Paula Bueno (Contributions by)

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