three amigos

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

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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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 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-03-01
Mått138 x 216 x 15 mm
Vikt331 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSpanish and Latin-American Filmmakers
Antal sidor284
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9780719097591

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IntroductionGuillermo del Toro: the Alchemist1. Cronos: Introducing Guillermo del Toro2. Generating an Authorial Presence with Hellboy II: The Golden Army 3. El Laberinto del Fauno: Breaking Through the Barriers of FilmmakingAlejandro González Iñárritu: Independent Filmmaker4. Change to Crashing into the International Film Market with Amores Perros5. 21 Grams: An American Independent Film made by Mexicans6. Babel and the Global Hollywood GazeAlfonso Cuarón: A Study of Auteurism in Flux7.1 Sólo Con tu Pareja: Bringing the Middle Classes Back to Mexican Cinemas7.2 Less than Great Expectations: Working within the Hollywood System 8. Cuarón Finds his Own Path: Y Tu Mamá También9. Children of Men: the Limits of RadicalismConclusionAppendix: Discussion thread on comicbookresources.com about del Toro and Mignola and the Hellboy films.BibliographyFilmography Index

Shaw concisely and efficiently utilizes a number of theoretical fields in her discussion, including careful scrutiny of the marketing, profits and the attendant creative freedoms and constraints these suppose, in addition to carrying out close textual analysis of key stylistic and technical characteristics of the films. This is an important book that convincingly argues that these three amigos, who are the most successful filmmakers of Mexican origin in financial and international terms, are exemplars of transnational filmmaking and demonstrates the multiple ways in which their ‘films have caused critics to rethink classificatory borders’ (225).