Deborah Shaw

The three amigos (eBook, ePUB)

The transnational filmmaking of Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Alfonso Cuarón

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first academic book dedicated to the filmmaking of the three best known Mexican born directors, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Alfonso Cuarón.

Deborah Shaw examines the career trajectories of the directors and presents a detailed analysis of their most significant films with a focus on both the texts and the production contexts in which they were made. These include studies on del Toro's Cronos/ Chronos, El laberinto del fauno/Pan's Labyrinth, and Hellboy II: The Golden Army; Iñárritu's Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel; and Cuarón's Sólo con tu pareja/ Love in the Time of Hysteria, Y tu mamá también, and Children of Men.

The Three Amigos will be of interest to all those who study Hispanic and Spanish Cinema in particular, and World and contemporary cinema in general.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Zando
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526112224
• Artikelnr.: 48795640

Autorenporträt

Deborah Shaw is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Portsmouth

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Guillermo del Toro: the Alchemist 1. Cronos: Introducing
Guillermo del Toro 2. Generating an Authorial Presence with Hellboy II: The
Golden Army 3. El Laberinto del Fauno: Breaking Through the Barriers of
Filmmaking Alejandro González Iñárritu: Independent Filmmaker 4. Change to
Crashing into the International Film Market with Amores Perros 5. 21 Grams:
An American Independent Film made by Mexicans 6. Babel and the Global
Hollywood Gaze Alfonso Cuarón: A Study of Auteurism in Flux 7.1 Sólo Con tu
Pareja: Bringing the Middle Classes Back to Mexican Cinemas 7.2 Less than
Great Expectations: Working within the Hollywood System 8. Cuarón Finds his
Own Path: Y Tu Mamá También 9. Children of Men: the Limits of Radicalism
Conclusion Appendix: Discussion thread on comicbookresources.com about del
Toro and Mignola and the Hellboy films. Bibliography Filmography Index