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“No Good Comes Out of a Spook Show”: Adaptation, Anxiety, and Trauma in Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley”
Dane Reighard considers how del Toro adapted a 1946 noir and, in the process, uncovered its contemporary resonances.
Dane Reighard
Dane Reighard recently received his PhD from UCLA’s Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages and Cultures. His film criticism has previously appeared in KinoKultura.