Villegas Lindvall analyses medical environs in Garza Cervera’s short films to explore the patriarchal arbitration of the feminised body.
Valeria Villegas Lindvall
Valeria Villegas Lindvall is a Senior Lecturer in Film at the University of Gothenburg and specialises in Latin American horror film with a feminist and decolonial focus. She is also Reviews Editor for MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture and member of the advisory board of MAI Imprint at Punctum Books. She has collaborated in several publications, most prominently as a co-editor, writer, and translator at Rolling Stone Mexico, as well as Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism and Genre (2020), The Body Onscreen in the Digital Age: Essays on Voyeurism, Violence and Power (2021), and Folk Horror: New Global Pathways (2023), among others. In addition, she is a collaborator for several physical media special edition releases of diverse horror features distributed by Arrow, Powerhouse, and Vinegar Syndrome.
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