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Nightmares of Presence

Ann Davies
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fantasy
fear
film analysis
film theory
Franco era
Gothic
Haunted houses
horror
Jaume Balaguero
nightmare
open fields
paradise
Spain
thrill
transnationality
wonder
woods
worlds

Product details

  • ISBN 9781501327377
  • Weight: 460g
  • Dimensions: 160 x 232mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Jul 2025
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

From haunted houses to sandy beaches, The Nightmares of Presence explores the role of setting in inspiring fear and wonder through audiovisual media. With an emphasis on horror and the Gothic, this book takes case studies from Spain to propose new approaches to the spaces and places of fear and fantasy.

With the primary aim of marrying the spatial turn in cultural and film studies with genre study of horror and Gothic film, Professor Ann Davies explores how different landscapes, spaces and places enable the subject to interact with the terrors they encounter and confront. Case studies include internationally renowned films, lesser known films which have not received distribution beyond Spain, and films made both in Spanish and English, including The Devil’s Backbone (Guillermo del Toro), [.REC ](Jaume Balagueró), Insensibles (Painless, Juan Carlos Medina), ¿Quién puede matar a un niño? (Who Can Kill A Child?, Narciso Ibáñez Serrador), Los cronocrímenes (Time Crimes, Nacho Vigalondo), and El día de la bestia (The Day of the Beast), among others.
About Ann Davies
Ann Davies is Chair of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Stirling, UK. She is the author of Spanish Spaces: Landscape, Space and Place in Contemporary Spanish Culture (2012). She is also the editor of Penélope Cruz (2014) and Spain on Screen: Developments in Contemporary Spanish Cinema (2012), and with Deborah Shaw and Dolores Tierney, she co-edited The Transnational Fantasies of Guillermo del Toro (2014).

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