Abstract This research explores the connections between the recent economic crisis and the contemporary horror film. To this end, I begin with a theoretical examination of the symbolic function of two key motifs (the ghost and the house), and the possibilities of their use to reinforce or subvert the mechanisms of the neoliberal cultural framework. Taking the horror genre as a privileged space for reading the unacknowledged tensions of our society, I consider the filmic use of domestic spaces, the suburbs, and the urban wastelands that the crisis has left in its wake. Against a context that cultivates fear based on the idea of social exclusion—poverty as the ultimate mechanism of horror—I put forward the possibility that the horror genre adopts explicitly ethical stances through a vindication of the meeting point between Deleuze’s and Lévinas’ respective theories of the cinematic face.

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“当代恐怖空间：作为 21 世纪幽灵的贫困和社会排斥”

摘要 本研究探讨了近期经济危机与当代恐怖片之间的联系。为此，我首先对两个关键主题（鬼和房子）的象征功能进行了理论研究，以及它们用于加强或颠覆新自由主义文化框架机制的可能性。将恐怖类型作为阅读我们社会未被承认的紧张局势的特权空间，我考虑了家庭空间、郊区和危机之后留下的城市荒地的电影用途。