How Guillermo del Toro Deals With Trauma

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FULL SPOILERS FOR THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE AND PAN'S LABYRINTH

In this video essay we'll examine Guillermo Del Toro's masterpieces 'The Devil's Backbone' (2001) and 'Pan's Labyrinth' (2005). Del Toro is planning to make these films into a trilogy about engaging with the repressed trauma that is the Spanish Civil War. I will point out how he uses the fantastical to say something profound about the historical, and how archetypal symbolism can bring knowledge of the human experience into our own lives...

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LITERATURE USED:

http://integr8-sciencethesacred.blogs... - (includes Donald Kalsched's quote) by Julian Walker.
Spanish History in the Fairy Country: Dealing with Social
Trauma in Pan’s Labyrinth. Álvaro Fernández. 2013.
2017 Maps of Meaning 9: Patterns of Symbolic Representation. Prof. Jordan Peterson Lecture (   • 2017 Maps of Meaning 09: Patterns of ...  )
With Spain in our Hearts: The Political Fantastic of Guillermo Del Toro’s Laberinto del fauno (2006) and El espinazo del diablo (2001)
Christopher Hartney
"Nobody's Children": Gothic Representation and Traumatic History in "The Devil'sBackbone". Ellen Brinks. 2004
Ghosts of the Past and Present: Hauntology and the Spanish Civil War in Guillermo delToro's "The Devil's Backbone". Anne E. Hardcastle. 2005.
https://vigilantcitizen.com/moviesand...

FILMS USED:

The Devil's Backbone (2001)

Pan's Labyrinth (2005)

The Spanish Earth (1937), dir. Joris Ivens.

Prelude to War (1942), dirs. Frank Capra & Anatole Litvak

MUSIC USED:

Pan's Labyrinth Soundtrack

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