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