%0 Journal Article
%T Pan¡¯s Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of History
%A Kuhu Tanvir
%J Wide Screen
%D 2009
%I Subaltern Media
%X Capturing history, or interpreting it, has meant many things over the years, ranging from melodrama-driven accounts, to brutally realist narratives to absurdist ¡®fragmented¡¯, ¡®non-stories¡¯. This paper deals with Guillermo del Torro¡¯s use of the fantastic in Pan¡¯s Labyrinth to allegorise the Spanish Civil War on the one hand, but more importantly, to explore and expand the field of the historical narrative in cinema.
%K history
%K cinema
%K spanish cinema
%K fantastic
%U http://widescreenjournal.org/index.php/journal/article/view/11/6