| Abstrakt: |
This paper argues that rodrigo Pla's film la Zona (2007), set in a privileged, self-governing gated community in Mexico City, replicates many of the north american variety of the Suburban Gothic's most characteristic preoccupations, albeit in a latin american setting, and with reference to specifically regional economic and political anxieties. The paper also discusses the ways in which the Suburban Gothic so often serves as a means of expressing specifically middle-class anxieties about the relationship between the privileged and the disenfranchised, in this instance, specifically Mexican anxieties about the liberties afforded to the wealthy and the ramifications of police corruption and political cronyism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
