"Más profundo en El laberinto del fauno: Un análisis de las funciones" by Catherine M. Brix-Trogdon
 

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Keywords

Laberinto del fauno (Motion picture); Civil War (Spain : 1936-1939); Fairy tales in motion pictures; War and motion pictures; Spain--History--Motion pictures and the war--Civil War, 1936-1939; Spain; 1936-1939; Academic theses; History;

Abstract

When Pan's Labyrinth opened in 2006 the Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro was relatively unknown among U.S. film connoisseurs and critics. Although the film opened first in Mexico and Spain, it immediately received international attention in spite of the film not being dubbed into English. In this way, the film's success is particularly noteworthy because it overcame the barriers often associated with a non-English international film. Viewers are immediately drawn to the protagonist, Ofelia, beginning with her daydreams and fairy tales before the film becomes a complicated narrative in which reality and fantasy collide. This pushes the viewer to look for more profound interpretation and significance. Although the film Pan's Labyrinth may seem to be no more than gratuitous entertainment, the film is however much more complex in that the subtext suggests a larger moral conflict that spans a greater social context. Pan's Labyrinth references historic events in the Spanish Civil War and juxtaposes these events with a fairy tale narrative which del Toro utilizes to demonstrate and critique the social and political situation of the post-war era in Spain. The narrative contains a wealth of material that can be analyzed using feminist critical theory, psychoanalytic theory and intertextual analysis. Literary analysis of the narrative also points to many intertextual relationships between the film and many popular fairy tales, novels and literary genres, as well as visual relationships between the film and important works of art. The film brings together fairy tale literature, the historic content of the Spanish Civil War, and the utopian nature of fantastic literature to create a unique social and political analysis and critique.

Year of Submission

2012

Degree Name

Master of Arts

Department

Department of Modern Languages

First Advisor

Jennifer Cooley

Second Advisor

Ivonne Cuadra

Third Advisor

Sara Rosell

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Date Original

2012

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