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.
Table of Content
Introduction
Guillermo del Toro: the Alchemist
1. Cronos: Introducing Guillermo del Toro
2. Generating an Authorial Presence with Hellboy II: The Golden Army
3. El Laberinto del Fauno: Breaking Through the Barriers of Filmmaking
Alejandro González Iñárritu: Independent Filmmaker
4. Change to Crashing into the International Film Market with Amores Perros
5. 21 Grams: An American Independent Film made by Mexicans
6. Babel and the Global Hollywood Gaze
Alfonso Cuarón: A Study of Auteurism in Flux
7.1 Sólo Con tu Pareja: Bringing the Middle Classes Back to Mexican Cinemas
7.2 Less than Great Expectations: Working within the Hollywood System
8. Cuarón Finds his Own Path: Y Tu Mamá También
9. Children of Men: the Limits of Radicalism
Conclusion
Appendix: Discussion thread on comicbookresources.com about del Toro and Mignola and the Hellboy films.
Bibliography
Filmography
About the author
Deborah Shaw is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Portsmouth
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