Confronting Ghosts: History, Trauma, and Aesthetics in Guillermo del Toro’s El Laberinto del Fauno

Historically, the presentation of collective trauma has been fraught with moral and aesthetic contradictions. Hollywood, in particular, has long struggled to visually adapt national trauma into a collective whole without rendering it into a spectacle; moreso when it comes to non-Western narratives....

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Main Author: Debalina Das
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research 2021-12-01
Series:Fafnir
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Online Access:http://journal.finfar.org/articles/2274.pdf