The Transnational Fantasies of Guillermo del Toro [electronic resource] /
Davies, A.editor.
Shaw, D.editor.
Tierney, D.editor.
Offering a multifaceted approach to the Mexican-born director Guillermo del Toro, this volume examines his wide-ranging oeuvre and traces the connections between his Spanish language and English language commercial and art film projects.
Description based upon print version of record.
Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Notes; References; Part I: Del Toro's Principles and Practices; 1 "There Is No Such Thing": Del Toro's Metafictional Monster Rally; References; 2 Guillermo del Toro's Monsters: Matter Out of Place; References; 3 Myth and Monstrosity: The Dark Realms of H. P. Lovecraft and Guillermo del Toro; Myth and Monstrosity; Issues of Adaptation; Lovecraftian Influences; Monstrous Protagonists; Subterranean Nightmares; Conclusion; Notes; References; Part II: Del Toro's English-Language Works
4 "This Is Something New . . . or-Something Very, Very Old": The Strain Trilogy in ContextBeginnings; Now Boarding; Connections; Authors of Destruction; "You Think You're Eating Mexican Tonight?"; An Uneasy Ending; Notes; References; 5 Adapt or Die: Mimicry and Evolution in Guillermo del Toro's English-Language Films; Mimic and Blade 2 (and El espinazo del diablo); Hellboy and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (and El laberinto del fauno); Conclusion: Pacific Rim; References; 6 Of Monstrous Masses and Hybrid Heroes: Del Toro's English-Language Films1; The Monstrous Multitudes
The Monstrous in Context (I): The Place of the Other in MimicMonstrous Complications and the Hybrid Hero; The Monstrous in Context (II); The Body-Monstrous, the Individual, and the Social; Notes; References; 7 Pacific Rim: Reception, Readings, and Authority; When Is an Auteur a Geek Auteur?; Influences, Borrowings, Tropes; Conclusion; Notes; References; Part III: Del Toro's Spanish-Language Works; 8 Reflected Horrors: Violence, War, and the Image in Guillermo del Toro's El espinazo del diablo/The Devil's Backbone (2001); Context; The Gothic; The Image; Acknowledgments; References
9 Transnational Political Horror in Cronos (1993), El espinazo del diablo (2001), and El laberinto del fauno (2006)Cronos; El espinazo del diablo; El laberinto del fauno; Notes; References; 10 Between Fantasy and Reality: The Child's Vision and Fairy Tales in Guillermo del Toro's Hispanic Trilogy*; The Liminal Child: A Journey of Initiation and Discovery; Fairy Tales for Adults: Fantasy Invades Historical Reality; The Representation of Violence; The Autonomous Child; Conclusion; Notes; References; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Offering a multifaceted approach to the Mexican-born director Guillermo del Toro, this volume examines his wide-ranging oeuvre and traces the connections between his Spanish language and English language commercial and art film projects.
Toro, Guillermo del, 1964-
Motion pictures and television.
Motion pictures—United States.
Motion pictures, American.
Ethnology—Latin America.
Motion pictures—History.
Arts.
Screen Studies.
American Cinema and TV.
Latin American Cinema and TV.
Latin American Culture.
Film History.
Arts.