TY - BOOK AU - McDonald,Keith AU - Clark,Roger TI - Guillermo del Toro: film as alchemic art SN - 9781441124494 (hardback : alk. paper) AV - PN1998.3.T58 M34 2014 U1 - 791.4302/33092 23 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Bloomsbury Academic KW - Toro, Guillermo del, N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-228) and index; Includes filmography; Influences and intertexts -- Accented fantasy and the Gothic perverse -- Fan as filmmaker -- Twisted genres: cronos and mimic -- Trauma, childhood, history: The devil's backbone and Pan's labyrinth -- Gothic superheroes: Blade II, Hellboy and Hellboy II: the golden army -- From development hell to the Pacific depths: The strain and Pacific Rim ER -