FMST 1364 - GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Long Description This course aims to discover the extent to which Guillermo del Toro's films and other media texts are unified in style and theme in order to explore auteurism, transnational critical approaches, genre theory, transformations across media forms and exhibition spaces (from SVOD to theatrical distribution to museum installations), adaptation studies, and horror studies, in particular. Guillermo del Toro is commonly identified with two other contemporary Mexican directors achieving international success (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Alfonso Cuaron), but his production of genre films and revisionist genre films, and the intertextuality of his works present an excellent case study of the uses and limitations of an auteurist approach. Thus, the course will examine films, television shows, video games and their intertexts and in relation to del Toro's body of work and Latin American, transnational and global contexts. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category I towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

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