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Guillermo del Toro: Film as Alchemic Art de Keith McDonald

Guillermo del Toro: Film as Alchemic Art

Autor Keith McDonald, Roger Clark
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 apr 2014
A critical exploration of one of the most exciting, original and influential figures to emerge in contemporary film, Guillermo del Toro: Film as Alchemic Art is a major contribution to the analysis of Guillermo del Toro's cinematic output. It offers an in-depth discussion of del Toro's oeuvre and investigates key ideas, recurrent motifs and subtle links between his movies. The book explores the sources that del Toro draws upon and transforms in the creation of his rich and complex body of work. These include the literary, artistic and cinematic influences on films such as Pan's Labyrinth, The Devil's Backbone, Cronos and Mimic, and the director's engagement with comic book culture in his two Hellboy films, Blade II and Pacific Rim. As well as offering extensive close textual analysis, the authors also consider del Toro's considerable impact on wider popular culture, including a discussion of his role as producer, ambassador for 'geek' culture and figurehead in new international cinema.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781441124494
ISBN-10: 1441124497
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Overview of current developments in fantasy and the gothic in film

Notă biografică

Keith McDonald holds a PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, and is the Head of Programme for Media, Film Studies and Mass Communications at York St John University, UK. His research interests include popular culture, cult cinema and digital media.Roger Clark taught literature and film in UK Universities for over thirty years and has published on contemporary fiction and film. He was Senior Lecturer in Literature Studies at York St John University, UK, where he is currently Honorary Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1Chapter 1. Influences and Intertexts Chapter 2. Accented Fantasy and the Gothic Perverse Chapter 3. Fan as Filmmaker Part 2Chapter 4. Twisted Genres: Cronos and Mimic Chapter 5. Trauma - Childhood -History: The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth Chapter 6. Gothic Superheroes: Blade II, Hellboy and Hellboy II: The Golden Army Chapter 7. From Development Hell to the Pacific Depths: The Strain and Pacific Rim Bibliography Filmography and Comicography Index

Recenzii

As a scholar of del Toro myself, [after reading Film as Alchemic Art] I found my understanding of this filmmaker enriched by readings of his works that I had never considered and furthermore, my comprehension of contemporary auterism expanded. [...] McDonald and Clark's book lays a solid foundation for whatever work may follow in this impressive and comprehensive reading of del Toro's cinema.
In this study, McDonald and Clark achieve a comprehensive and scholarly examination of the director and his cinema. In a thoroughly researched account of del Toro's literary and cinematic influences, his experimentation with genre, the trans-national quality of his work and his self-identification as a fan, the authors build a sharp and fascinating portrait of del Toro. To this they add a series of lucid and critical readings of the director's films that show an admirable command of del Toro's multi-generic and multicultural points of reference. Building the study around the apposite metaphor of del Toro as alchemist, McDonald and Clark's study captures the person and the work brilliantly, combining exhaustive research with an evident enthusiasm for the subject matter. The result, as alchemical as del Toro's cinema, is an in-depth yet highly approachable book that will appeal to scholars and fans alike.
A lucid, rigorous mid-career study of Guillermo del Toro's films, Guillermo del Toro: Film as Alchemic Art is critical reading for students and scholars of del Toro's cinematic oeuvre. McDonald and Clark situate del Toro's films as transnational, hybrid narratives informed by traditional and non-traditional styles as well as the fantasy and horror genres and auteurist tradition. The result is a nuanced portrait of the transformative nature or "alchemic art" of del Toro's narratives, which the authors point out feature "counter-narratives," non-Hollywood endings, and imagery that is alternately brutal and beautiful. This hybrid, "accented" cinema illustrates the mystery, violence, and transformations inherent in the stories del Toro tells.
This is as good an account of del Toro's influences, preoccupations and films as one could hope for. It combines detailed analysis of the films with a wide-ranging examination of the cultural context of his work, including cinematic, literary and artistic influences, as well as considering him from the perspectives of transnational cinema, queer cinema, and the rich relationship that he has with the world of fandom. A well informed, lucid and stimulating study.