“How Guillermo del Toro and Alex de la Iglesia Incorporate Womb-Tomb Motifs to Comment upon the Troubled Generations Born After the Spanish Civil War In The Devil’s Backbone (2001), Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), and The Last Circus (2010)”

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Brief Overview

Applying memory politics and transitional justice, this paper explores how directors Guillermo del Toro and Alex de la Iglesia use visual motifs of womb-tombs and the commentaries on the Spanish national reconciliation process.

Author

• Vivienne Tailor, Claremont Graduate University