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Guillermo del Toro'sCronos: the Vampire as Embodied Heterotopia

Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 2008
To discuss Cronos (Guillermo del Toro, 1992) in terms of vampire films and literature may seem to be too obvious a thing to do, since Cronos is about a man who becomes a vampire, but the film has n...
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Saturno, melancolía y El laberinto del fauno de Guillermo del Toro

2010
HeLix - Dossiers zur romanischen Literaturwissenschaft, Bd.
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Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy: A Kinder, Gentler, More Modern Heracles

2023
In Hellboy (2004, Sony Pictures), Guillermo del Toro presents a mythic hero (half human/half demon) seemingly made from the same mold as the classical hero Heracles (Hercules). Hellboy’s modern world is shaped by a cosmology not unlike that of Greek mythology, and as is true for Heracles, his unique pedigree and superior physicality empower him to ...
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Entering the Labyrinth of Ethics in Guillermo del Toro’s El laberinto del fauno

2019
This chapter explores the implications of privileging the child protagonist’s perspective in Guillermo del Toro’s film, El laberinto del fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth), a film that embeds itself in the history of children’s fantasy narratives. Ofelia, the protagonist, poses a radical challenge to the (adult) viewer in her response to human and nonhuman nature
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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio : von Guillermo del Toro

2022
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Memory: landscapes of the past in Guillermo del Toro's Spanish films

2012
This and the next chapter emphasise one of the key contemporary political and cultural issues in Spain today, that of the recuperation of memories of the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath. Spain's transition from dictatorship to democracy in the late 70s and early 80s was assumed to be based on a pacto de olvido (pact of forgetting) that did not ...
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A TRAGEDY DOOMED TO REPEAT ITSELF TIME AND AGAIN: MONSTROUS REPRESENTATIONS IN GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE (2001)

Abusões, 2022
Claudio Zanini
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Guillermo del Toro

2014
Keith McDonald, Roger Clark
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Fantastische Elemente in dem Film "El laberinto del fauno" von Guillermo del Toro

2013
This diploma thesis describes the fantastic elements which can be found in the movie "El laberinto del fauno" by Guillermo del Toro, which have been chosen for this thesis. First there will be defined important terms like fantasy, fantastic literature and the fantastic.
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Nightmare Alley : von Guillermo del Toro

2022
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