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Jenni Schofield

Library professional (Public Service Assistant) at King County Library System in Seattle and horror-film podcast guest on "Not Scared."

Sep 29, 2026

27:06
So yeah, if someone is listening and doesn't know anything about the Spanish Civil War, what do you feel like they need to know to maybe like understand Pan's Labyrinth?
27:14
I will also try to make this 120 seconds or less, but it was a deep conflict, but it took place between July 1936 to, I want to say, March 1939.
27:27
Spain had been dealing with a lot of like... ungovernable crises for decades leading up to it, most without getting into too much context.
27:36
There was a Spanish American war in 1898 that lost a lot of Spain's overseas territories.
27:41
And so Spain had not achieved modernization at the same tempo as many of the other countries in the world, such as the United States or other countries in Europe.
27:49
And they were deeply fractured between rich and poor, rural versus urban, Catholics versus anti-clericals.
27:55
There was like two more, two Spains.

56 MINS LATER

83:56
But the big question of the end is, you know, is Ophelia actually seeing fairies or is it all in her head? Whether it's an illness or coping with the trauma of living through a war, or does it matter? Do you have any opinion?

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