Cover 1
Title Page, Series Page, Copyright, Dedication 2
Contents 8
List of figures 10
Acknowledgements 12
Introduction 14
1. Cronos: introducing Guillermo del Toro 30
2. Generating an authorial presence with Hellboy II: The Golden Army 58
3. El laberinto del fauno: breaking through the barriers of filmmaking 80
4. Crashing into the international film market with Amores perros 106
5. 21 Grams: an American independent film made by Mexicans 127
6. Babel and the global Hollywood gaze 148
7. Alfonso Cuarón’s first films in Mexico and the USA 170
8. Cuarón finds his own path: Y tu mamá también 189
9. Children of Men: the limits of radicalism 214
Conclusion 238
Filmography 244
Bibliography 259
Index 274
Publisher:Manchester University Press,Published:2016,ISBN:9781526112231,Language:English,OCLC:980552195
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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The three amigos the transnational filmmaking of Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro Goñzález Inárritu, and Alfonso Cuarón

Deborah Shaw, Nuria Triana-Toribio, Andy Willis

Project MUSE (https://muse.jhu.edu/)

Spanish and Latin American filmmakers, Manchester, UK, 2013

Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK, 2013

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

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'This is the first academic book dedicated to the filmmaking of the Mexican born directors Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Alfonso Cuarón. The book examines the career trajectories of the directors and presents a detailed analysis of their most significant films. These include studies on del Toro's Cronos/Chronos, El laberinto del fauno/Pan's Labyrinth, 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. All three have worked in diverse industrial contexts, and between them they have made key films that have changed the nature of filmmaking in Mexico, Hollywood blockbusters, US independent films, 'European' art films, and films that defy easy classification. They have had unprecedented international success and have crossed linguistic, national and generic borders, cutting through traditional divisions created by film markets. As a result, this book challenges the ways both markets and critics have created clear-cut distinctions between mainstream commercial and independent art cinema, and the ways they have conceptualised US, Latin American and European cinema as discrete entities. The work of the three directors creates new hybrid formations and makes us rethink ways in which we have understood the auteur label. The main theoretical approaches applied in this book to analyse the directors' working practices and texts centre on new readings of auteurism and transnational film theories.This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of film studies and Hispanic studies, and general cinema enthusiasts who are interested in the films of the three directors' --Back cover

"This is the first academic book dedicated to the filmmaking of the Mexican born directors, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Alfonso Cuarón. The book examines the career trajectories of the directors and presents a detailed analysis of their most significant films. These include studies on del Toro's Cronos/Chronos, El laberinto del fauno/Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy II: The Golden Army; Inárritu'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."--Page 4 of cover

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