Sound of horror: The (im)possible formulation of the monstrous
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2018.v0i16.4098Keywords:
Spanish cinema, horror cinema, science fiction, Nieves CondeAbstract
The present essay tries to address the unique formulation of certain thematic features and expressive resources characteristics of the horror films that the film Sound of Horror (1965), directed by José Antonio Nieves Conde, carries out. To this end, we will chose the textual analysis and discourse as methodological tool, since it will allow us to focus on the particularities of the film. Carried out in a period of his career in which the filmmaker undertakes custom projects to survive financially, the film we will be dealing with is one of the best examples of the solvency of his work as a director and narrator. The elusive physicality of the monstrous threat that puts the lives of the protagonists at risk causes a figurative void that entails the underlining of the formal mechanisms through which the enunciation operates.
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