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Title: The Walls fall down : fantasy and power in El laberinto del fauno
Related: Studies in Hispanic cinemas, Vol. 4, No. 1, p.35-45
DOI: 10.1386/shci.4.1.35/1
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 2008
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 190200 Film, Television and Digital Media
Author/Creator: Hanley, Jane
Description: Guillermo del Toro's El laberinto del fauno/Pan's Labyrinth combines the imagery of fantasy cinema for children and the narrative structure of a fairy tale with the brutality and violence of the Spanish Civil War. This article explores the way El laberinto del fauno's setting and genre create surprising tensions between historical and fantastic narratives. Through a viewing of the film as an elaboration of different processes of power, the role of the child and the significance of the family structure are brought into conjunction with the history of violence. Strategies of exclusion as well as strategic transgressions, rules and rule-breaking, law and imagination all serve to create divergent paths through the labyrinth.
Description: 11 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 190200 Film, Television and Digital Media
Subject Keyword: fairy tales
Subject Keyword: fantasy
Subject Keyword: violence
Subject Keyword: Del Toro
Subject Keyword: childhood
Subject Keyword: Civil War
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of European Languages

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