Masters of the grotesque : the cinema of Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, the Coen brothers and David Lynch /
"The concepts and theories surrounding the aesthetic category of the grotesque are explored in this book by pursuing their deployment in the films of American auteurs Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, the Coen Brothers and David Lynch"--Provided by publisher.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers,
[2012]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. The philosophy of the grotesque
- Art, being and contrast
- metaphysics, myth and purgatory
- Pt. 2. Interpolarity: binaries of the grotesque
- Tim Burton's two worlds
- Terry Gilliam's mythic madness
- pt. 3. Menacing invasions: the hazards of time and subjectivity
- The mundane and the catastrophic in the films of Joel and Ethan Coen
- Obliterating the subject in the cinematic world of David Lynch
- Pt. 4. Into the world and back again: from politics to paradox
- Politics, culture and the grotesque family in hippie-slasher-horror
- grim reveries, or the ambiguities.