The Three Amigos: The Transnational Filmmaking of Guillermo Del Toro, Alejandro GonzaLez InaRritu, and Alfonso CuaroN

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Three Amigos: The Transnational Filmmaking of Guillermo Del Toro, Alejandro GonzaLez InaRritu, and Alfonso CuaroN
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Deborah Shaw
SeriesSpanish and Latin-American Filmmakers
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:284
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/GenreIndividual film directors and film-makers
ISBN/Barcode 9780719097591
ClassificationsDewey:791.4302330922
Audience
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Illustrations Halftones, black & white

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 1 March 2015
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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 Gonzalez Inarritu and Alfonso Cuaron. 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; Inarritu's Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel; and Cuaron's Solo con tu pareja/Love in the Time of Hysteria, Y tu mama tambien, 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. -- .

Author Biography

Deborah Shaw is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Portsmouth -- .

Reviews

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). -- .