The supernatural cinema of Guillermo del Toro
Subtitle: critical essays
By: edited by John W. Morehead ; foreword by Doug Jones
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780786495955
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: "This collection of new essays discusses cultural, religious and literary influences on del Toro's work and explores key themes of his films, including the child's experience of humanity through encounters with the monstrous"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The magical spirituality of a lapsed Catholic: atheism and anticlericalism / S. T. Joshi; title: At the mountains of Mexico: the echoes and intertexts of Lovecraft and Dunsany / Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.; title: Slime and subtlety: monsters in del Toro's Spanish-language films / Ann Davies; title: Time out of joint: traumatic hauntings in the Spanish Civil War films / Karin Brown; title: The child transformed by monsters: The monstrous beauty of childhood trauma / Jessica Balanzategui; title: The ambivalence of creative desire: Theogonic myth and monstrous offspring / Sidney l. Sondergard; title: Henry's kids: othered children and Karloff's Frankenstein monster / John Kenneth Muir; title: Where the wild things are: monsters and children / Alexandra West; title: Bloodsucking bugs: Horacio Quiroga and the Latin American transformation of vampires / Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodriguez; title: The birth of fantasy: a Nietzschaen reading of Pan's labyrinth / Jack Collins; title: Menstruation as heroine's journey in Pan's labyrinth / Richard Lindsay.