Davies, Ann
The Transnational Fantasies of Guillermo del Toro
1. Introduction
Dolores Tierney, Deborah Shaw, Ann Davies
Part I. Del Toro’s Principles and Practices
2. “There Is No Such Thing”: Del Toro’s Metafictional Monster Rally
Glenn Ward
3. Guillermo del Toro’s Monsters: Matter Out of Place
Ann Davies
4. Myth and Monstrosity: The Dark Realms of H. P. Lovecraft and Guillermo del Toro
Rebecca Janicker
Part II. Del Toro’s English-Language Works
5. “This Is Something New … or—Something Very, Very Old”: The Strain Trilogy in Context
Simon Bacon
6. Adapt or Die: Mimicry and Evolution in Guillermo del Toro’s English-Language Films
Peter Hutchings
7. Of Monstrous Masses and Hybrid Heroes: Del Toro’s English-Language Films
Laura Podalsky
8.
Niamh Thornton
Part III. Del Toro’s Spanish-Language Works
9. Reflected Horrors: Violence, War, and the Image in Guillermo del Toro’s
Miriam Haddu
10. Transnational Political Horror in
Dolores Tierney
11. Between Fantasy and Reality: the Child’s Vision and Fairy Tales in Guillermo del Toro’s Hispanic Trilogy
Juan Carlos Vargas
Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Film and Television Studies, American Cinema, Latin American Cinema, Latin American Culture, Film History, Arts
- Editor
- Davies, Ann
- Shaw, Deborah
- Tierney, Dolores
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2014
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 223 pages
- Category
- Art, Art History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137407849
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-48826-1