Reading Clementina (2019), Monteoliva’s debut feature film, the authors discuss spectral motherhood and fear in the domestic environment.
Valeria Arévalos
Valeria Arévalos is a doctoral candidate in History and Theory of the Arts, Bachelor of Arts and Professor of Secondary and Higher Education in Arts at the Universidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina. She is a member of the working groups CIyNE (Centro de Investigación y Nuevos Estudios sobre cine) and CineLat&Pop (Grupo de estudio sobre cine y culturas populares en América Latina). She was a member of the board of directors of AsAECA (Argentinean Association of Film and Audiovisual Studies). She has participated in numerous international conferences and has published in several specialized journals. Her main research topic is the configuration of otherness in contemporary Argentinean horror cinema.
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