Studying Pan’s Labyrinth

What is it about Pan's Labyrinth that so entrances audiences? Certainly it is a film of both extraordinary technical accomplishment and intense emotional impact. It won acclaim from both critics and audiences alike. But it also has an ideological as well as emotional impetus. The combination of these attributes has resulted in a rich cienmatic text that demands and deserves close scrutiny.

Studying Pan's Labyrinth takes the reader on a detailed analytical journey through the film in a consideration of how textual elements generate meaning for audiences. Author Tanya Jones cnsiders how textual elements geneate meaning for audiences. Author Tanya Jones considers how technical choices work to produce a story about human experience and political conflict. Production. distribution and exhibition processes are also discussed in detail. The technical vocbulary needed to approach the study of any film is explanined through specific examples froma range of films, making this guide not only a close analysis of Guillermo del Toro's dark masterpiece, but a framework with which the student of film can also approach the study of other texts.