The Three Amigos: The Transnational Filmmaking of Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Alfonso Cuarón

by Deborah Shaw

Book Overview

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 Gonz lez I rritu and Alfonso Cuar n.

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; I rritu's Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel; and Cuar n's S lo con tu pareja/Love in the Time of Hysteria, Y tu mam tambi n, 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719097592
• ISBN13: 9780719097591
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"