{"id":181,"date":"2026-10-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/watchnext\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=181"},"modified":"2026-10-16T17:06:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T17:06:39","slug":"episode-12-cronos-with-dr-lydia-cdebaca","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/watchnext\/podcast\/episode-12-cronos-with-dr-lydia-cdebaca\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 12 \u2013 Cronos with Dr. Lydia CdeBaca"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tackling themes of colonialism, NAFTA, Catholic religious imagery, time, and tension between small-scale artisanship and industrial capitalism, we dive deep with Dr. Lydia CdeBaca into Guillermo Del Toro&#8217;s debut film <em>Cronos<\/em> (1992), a Mexican dark fantasy horror reimagining of the vampire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Works Discussed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cronos (Guillermo Del Toro, 1992)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tackling themes of colonialism, NAFTA, Catholic religious imagery, time, and tension between small-scale artisanship and industrial capitalism, we dive deep with Dr. Lydia CdeBaca into Guillermo Del Toro&#8217;s debut film Cronos (1992), a Mexican dark fantasy horror reimagining of the vampire. 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