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Remembering Why We Once Feared the Dark: Reclaiming Humanity Through Fantasy in Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II

2012; Wiley; Volume: 45; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1540-5931.2012.00972.x

1540-5931

Tony M. Vinci,

Digital Storytelling and Education

The Journal of Popular CultureVolume 45, Issue 5 p. 1041-1059 Article Remembering Why We Once Feared the Dark: Reclaiming Humanity Through Fantasy in Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II Tony M. Vinci, Tony M. VinciSearch for more papers by this author Tony M. Vinci, Tony M. VinciSearch for more papers by this author First published: 24 September 2012 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5931.2012.00972.xCitations: 2Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Works Cited Attebury, Brian. The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature: From Irving to Le Guin. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1980. Print. Attebury, Brian. " The Politics (If Any) of Fantasy." Modes of the Fantastic: Selected Essays From the Twelfth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Eds. Robert A. Latham and Robert A. Collins. Westport: Greenwood, 1995. 1– 13. Print. Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. New York: Vintage, 1977. Print. Bongco, Mila. Reading Comics: Language, Culture, and the Conception of the Superhero in Comic Books. New York: Garland, 2000. Print. Breznican, Anthony. "Hellboy II Director del Toro Takes His Demons Seriously." USA Today (2008): 8 July 2008. Web. 21 July 2008. Brook-Rose, Christine. A Rhetoric of the Unreal: Studies in Narrative and Structure, Especially of the Fantastic. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1981. Print. Burger, Douglas A. " The Shire: A Tolkien Version of Pastoral." Aspects of Fantasy: Selected Essays From the Second International Conference on the Fantastic in Literature and Film. Ed. William Coyle. Westport: Greenwood, 1986. 149– 54. Print. Cawletti, John. "Notes Toward a Typology of Literary Forms." Journal of Popular Culture 10.1 (1976): 34. Print. Coyle, William. " Introduction: the Nature of Fantasy." Aspects of Fantasy: Selected Essays From the Second International Conference on the Fantastic in Literature and Film. Ed. William Coyle. Westport: Greenwood, 1986. 1– 3. Print. Del Toro, Guillermo. Hellboy II: The Art of the Movie. Milwaukie: Dark Horse, 2008. Print. Douglas, Edward. "Luke Goss is Hellboy II's Prince Nuada." Superherohype (2008): 1 Feb. 2008. Web. 21 Jul. 2008. Fiske, John. Television Culture. London: Routledge, 1987. Print. Hellboy. Dir. Guillermo del Toro. Columbia Tristar, 2004. DVD. Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Dir. Guillermo del Toro. Universal, 2008. DVD. Hume, Kathryn. Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature. New York: Methuen, 1984. Print. Irwin, W. R. The Game of the Impossible: A Rhetoric of Fantasy. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1976. Print. Jackson, Rosemary. Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion. London: Methuen, 1981. Print. Lovecraft, H. P. " Introduction." The Call of Cthulu and Other Weird Stories. Ed. S. T. Joshi. New York: Penguin, 1999. vii– xx. Print. Manlove, C. N. " On the Nature of Fantasy." The Aesthetics of Fantasy Literature and Art. Ed. Roger C. Schlobin. Indiana: U of Notre Dame P, 1982. 16– 35. Print. Schaafsma, Karen. " Wondrous Vision: Transformation of the Hero in Fantasy Through Encounter with the Other." Aspects of Fantasy: Selected Essays from the Second International Conference on the Fantastic in Literature and Film. Ed. William Coyle. Westport: Greenwood, 1986. 61– 71. Print. Somer, Karen. "To Hell and Back—How Mike Mignola created Hellboy." Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms. Starz Media, 2006. DVD Featurette. Swinfen, Ann. In Defense of Fantasy: A Study of the Genre in English and American Literature Since 1945. London: Routledge, 1984. Print. Todorov, Tzvetan. The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre. Trans. Richard Howard. London: U of Case of Werster Reserve P, 1973. Print. Tolkien, J. R. R. " On Fairy-Stories." Tree and Leaf. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965. 3– 86. Print. Weiner, Stephen. " The Literary Heritage of Hellboy." Mike Mignola's Hellboy: The Companion. Eds. Scott Allie and Rachel Edidin. Milwaukie: Dark Horse, 2008a. 209– 21. Print. Weiner, Stephen. " What is it About Hellboy?: An Appreciation." Mike Mignola's Hellboy: The Companion. Eds. Scott Allie and Rachel Edidin. Milwaukie: Dark Horse, 2008b. 10– 14. Print. Zipes, Jack. Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion. New York: Methuen, 1983. Print. Zizek, Slavoj. " The Specter of Ideology." The Zizek Reader. Eds. Elizabeth Wright and Edmund Wright. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. 53– 86. Print. Citing Literature Volume45, Issue5October 2012Pages 1041-1059 ReferencesRelatedInformation