The Three Amigos

Now available in paperback, this is the first academic book dedicated to the filmmaking of the three-best known Mexican-born directors, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu and Alfonso Cuarn. 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 Toros Cronos/Chronos, El laberinto del fauno/Pans Labyrinth, and Hellboy II: The Golden Army; Irritus Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel; and Cuarns Slo con tu pareja/Love in the Time of Hysteria, Y tu mam tambin, 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. -- .