¡Qué miedo! El cine hispánico de horror

Hispanic horror film, often overlooked within the world of film studies, is one of the most culturally and cinematically fascinating film genres of the Hispanic world. This course will delve into the dark and intriguing world of Latin American and Peninsular horror film. We will study horror cinema considering works from across time periods, national contexts and directors. This course will ask the following questions: How does the genre express individual and national anxieties in the cultural, social, political and economic realms? To what degree does horror film serve as a social barometer that both explores, negotiates and at times reifies social anxieties about difference, identity, sexuality, normativity, repression, technology, the environment, etc.? This class will be taught in Spanish.