Neo-Victorian narratives of trauma display a temporal duplicity in addressing nineteenth- century traumas that still prevail at present, including natural catastrophes, wars, or more personal and insidious traumas, such as domestic violence and oppression, or child and sexual abuse. In this article, I argue that Guillermo del Toro’s neo-Victorian film Crimson Peak (2015) is constructed as a trauma narrative that exploits the trope of «the uncanny» (Freud 1919) and its main representations –i.e. the double, the return of the dead and repetition compulsion– to address the traumatic experience of gender violence and its impact on both Victorian and contemporary women. Furthermore, I contend that the film functions as a symbolical space...
Using the Holocaust as a transnational trope, and drawing on the theoretical debates on the represen...
The objective of this article is twofold: to deepen into the psychoanalytical concepts of trauma and...
Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow (1991) excited much controversy when it came out for this novella revolve...
This paper begins by offering a brief overview of the popular culture narrative Crimson Peak (2015),...
En El espinazo del diablo (2001) el director mexicano Guillermo del Toro ofrece una re-visión/re-esc...
This article responds to the critical debate around Jennifer Kent's horror movie, The Babadook (2014...
This article unpacks the cultural work that Juan Carlos Medina’s Insensibles, released in English as...
Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth can be understood as a reinterpretation of the post-civil war p...
International audienceIn this article I provide an in-depth analysis of Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro...
This article examines representations of trauma in Lúcia Murat’s Que bom te ver viva (How Nice to Se...
Resumen: La celebrada El laberinto del fauno (Del Toro, 2006) pone en escena un cuento de hadas situ...
When Crimson Peak was released in 2015, reviews of the film reflected upon the difficulty in categor...
This article analyzes the narrative function of the fantastic in two commercial Spanish language mov...
Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth can be understood as a reinterpretation of the post-civil war p...
Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak (2015) employ the classic gothic trope of the decadent (if dilapid...
Using the Holocaust as a transnational trope, and drawing on the theoretical debates on the represen...
The objective of this article is twofold: to deepen into the psychoanalytical concepts of trauma and...
Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow (1991) excited much controversy when it came out for this novella revolve...
This paper begins by offering a brief overview of the popular culture narrative Crimson Peak (2015),...
En El espinazo del diablo (2001) el director mexicano Guillermo del Toro ofrece una re-visión/re-esc...
This article responds to the critical debate around Jennifer Kent's horror movie, The Babadook (2014...
This article unpacks the cultural work that Juan Carlos Medina’s Insensibles, released in English as...
Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth can be understood as a reinterpretation of the post-civil war p...
International audienceIn this article I provide an in-depth analysis of Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro...
This article examines representations of trauma in Lúcia Murat’s Que bom te ver viva (How Nice to Se...
Resumen: La celebrada El laberinto del fauno (Del Toro, 2006) pone en escena un cuento de hadas situ...
When Crimson Peak was released in 2015, reviews of the film reflected upon the difficulty in categor...
This article analyzes the narrative function of the fantastic in two commercial Spanish language mov...
Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth can be understood as a reinterpretation of the post-civil war p...
Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak (2015) employ the classic gothic trope of the decadent (if dilapid...
Using the Holocaust as a transnational trope, and drawing on the theoretical debates on the represen...
The objective of this article is twofold: to deepen into the psychoanalytical concepts of trauma and...
Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow (1991) excited much controversy when it came out for this novella revolve...