City, territorial processes and pop culture in Latin America: zombies, aliens and evil imaginaries

Abstract

This work is about the changes in visions that take place in horror and sci-fi movies and how this vision penetrates cultural conceptions about undesirable. Make an analysis of emblematic zombies and alien movies using a representative sample of emblematic films in each category with the finality of understand how in the evolution of elements that support horror in film story, it is possible to interpret some manners we can understand contemporary cities and the manners of inhabitants conceive their life in. It is used for this purpose analog hermeneutical method (Beuchot, 2000, 2008; Baeza 2000; Coca y Valero Matas, 2010; Coca 2015), using the city and films as the texts for interpretation, studying parallels and analogies that reveal underlying common content. It is presented a characterization of analyzed elements to establish parallelisms with elements of cities and its inhabitants. At the end of article identifies changes in urban-imaginaries that are revealed in these documents of pop culture and how they can relate them to what has been called “evil urban imaginary” (Fuentes Gómez y Rosado Lugo, 2008) and can be a factor in explaining the need for isolation than urban inhabitants of Latin America are currently experiencing through the construction of housing complexes with closed access controls.