Alice's Little Sister: Exploring Pan's Labyrinth

A Film as Text by Kim Edwards on Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006). Edwards writes that the film, a re-imagining of the Alice in Wonderland story, usurps the traditional male space of the Underworld, displaces it and designates it a female realm. The article also explores how the fairytale realm can become an insightful commentary on war, society and gender.