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The supernatural cinema of Guillermo del Toro : critical essays / edited by John W. Morehead ; foreword by Doug Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Doug, author of introduction.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Toro, Guillermo del, 1964---Criticism and interpretation.
- Toro, Guillermo del.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (215 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Guillermo del Toro is one of the most prolific artists working in film. His directorial work includes Cronos (1993), Mimic (1997), The Devil's Backbone (2001), Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), Hellboy II (2008) and Pacific Rim (2013). He has also worked extensively as a producer, with several screenwriting credits to his name. As a novelist he coauthored The Strain Trilogy (2009-2011), which he also developed into a television series for FX in 2014. Del Toro has spoken of the ""primal, spiritual function"" of his art, which gives expression to his fascination with monst
- Contents:
- Cover; Table of Contents; Foreword (Doug Jones); Introduction (John W. Morehead); The Magical Spirituality of a Lapsed Catholic: Atheism and Anticlericalism (S. T. Joshi); At the Mountains of Mexico: The Echoes and Intertexts of Lovecraft and Dunsany (Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.); Slime and Subtlety: Monsters in del Toro's Spanish- Language Films (Ann Davies); Time Out of Joint: Traumatic Hauntings in the Spanish Civil War Films (Karin Brown); The Child Transformed by Monsters: The Monstrous Beauty of Childhood Trauma (Jessica Balanzategui)
- The Ambivalence of Creative Desire: Theogonic Myth and Monstrous Offspring (Sidney L. Sondergard)Henry's Kids: Othered Children and Karloff 's Frankenstein Monster (John Kenneth Muir); Where the Wild Things Are: Monsters and Children (Alexandra West); Bloodsucking Bugs: Horacio Quiroga and the Latin American Transformation of Vampires (Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodríguez); The Birth of Fantasy: A Nietzschaen Reading of Pan's Labyrinth (Jack Collins); Menstruation as Heroine's Journey in Pan's Labyrinth (Richard Lindsay); About the Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4766-2075-X
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