The Transnational Fantasies of Guillermo del Toro [Hardcover]

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.Foreward; Paul Julian Smith Introduction; Dolores Tierney, Deborah Shaw, and Ann Davies PART I: DEL TORO'S PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES 1. There is No such Thing : Del Toro's Metafictional Monster Rally; Glenn Ward 2. Guillermo del Toro's Monsters: Matter Out of Place; Ann Davies 3. Myth and Monstrosity: The Dark Realms of H. P. Lovecraft and Guillermo del Toro; Rebecca Janicker PART II: DEL TORO'S ENGLISH-LANGUAGE WORKS 4. This is Something New . . . OrSomething Very, Very Old : The Strain Trilogy in Context; Simon Bacon 5. Adapt or Die: Mimicry and Evolution in Guillermo del Toro's English-Language Films; Peter Hutchings 6. Of Monstrous Masses and Hybrid Heroes: Del Toro's English-Language films; Laura Podalsky 7. Pacific Rim : Reception, Readings and Authority; Niamh Thornton 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); Miriam Haddu 9. Transnational Political Horror in Cronos (1993), El espinazo del diablo (2001) and El laberinto del fauno (2006); Dolores Tierney 10. Between Fantasy and Reality: the Child's Vision and Fairy tales in Guillermo del Toro's Hispanic trilogy; Juan Carlos Vargas

The Transnational Fantasies of Guillermo del Toro &addresses this growing interest in del Toro as an emblematic figure of thesetrends by bringing together a range of essays exploring the director through hisEnglish and Spanish language works. & this book an essential introduction forthose discovering the director and a comprehensive collection for all del Toroscholars and fans. (Amber Shields, Frames Cinema Journal, Fall 2015)

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