{"title":"Huesera, Clara Sola, and Medusa","authors":"Manuel Betancourt","doi":"10.1525/fq.2022.76.2.83","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"FQ columnist Manuel Betancourt discusses three recent Latin American spins on the horror genre: Huesera (Michelle Garza Cervera, 2022), Clara Sola (Nathalie Álvarez Mesén, 2021), and Medusa (Anita Rocha da Silveira, 2021). As modern feminist fables, these films consciously upend horror conventions, reworking rigid conceptions of female victimhood to reveal how a patriarchal system corrodes a woman’s sense of agency. Together, they show the way forward for a bolder kind of contemporary horror cinema with a decidedly feminist point of view.","PeriodicalId":45540,"journal":{"name":"FILM QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"FILM QUARTERLY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2022.76.2.83","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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FQ columnist Manuel Betancourt discusses three recent Latin American spins on the horror genre: Huesera (Michelle Garza Cervera, 2022), Clara Sola (Nathalie Álvarez Mesén, 2021), and Medusa (Anita Rocha da Silveira, 2021). As modern feminist fables, these films consciously upend horror conventions, reworking rigid conceptions of female victimhood to reveal how a patriarchal system corrodes a woman’s sense of agency. Together, they show the way forward for a bolder kind of contemporary horror cinema with a decidedly feminist point of view.
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Film Quarterly has been publishing substantial, peer-reviewed writing on motion pictures since 1958, earning a reputation as the most authoritative academic film journal in the United States. Its wide array of topics, perspectives, and approaches appeals to film scholars and film buffs alike. If you love all types of movies and are eager to encounter new ways of thinking about them, then Film Quarterly is the journal for you! Scholarly analyses of international cinemas, current blockbusters and Hollywood classics, documentaries, animation, and independent, avant-garde, and experimental film and video fill the pages of the journal.