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001 2015016496
003 DLC
005 20150703123153.0
008 150513s2015 ncua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2015016496
020 $a9780786495955 (softcover : acid-free paper)
020 $z9781476620756 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPN1998.3.T583$bS87 2015
082 00 $a791.4302/33092$223
245 04 $aThe supernatural cinema of Guillermo del Toro :$bcritical essays /$cedited by John W. Morehead ; foreword by Doug Jones.
264 1 $aJefferson, North Carolina :$bMcFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,$c[2015]
300 $avi, 207 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"This collection of new essays discusses cultural, religious and literary influences on del Toro's work and explores key themes of his films, including the child's experience of humanity through encounters with the monstrous"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe 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-Rodriguez -- The birth of fantasy: a Nietzschaen reading of Pan's labyrinth / Jack Collins -- Menstruation as heroine's journey in Pan's labyrinth / Richard Lindsay.
600 10 $aToro, Guillermo del,$d1964-$xCriticism and interpretation.
700 1 $aMorehead, John W.,$d1964-$eeditor.