The philosophy of Tim Burton /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: McMahon, Jennifer L. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2014]
Series:Philosophy of popular culture.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Fishing for the [mediating] self: identity and storytelling in Big fish / Ken Hada
  • Catwoman and subjectivity: constructions of identity and power in Tim Burton's Batman returns / Ryan Weldon
  • The consolations and dangers of fantasy: Burton, Poe, and Vincent / Daniel Sullivan
  • Johnny Depp is a big baby! the philosophical significance of Tim Burton's preoccupation with childhood consciousness in Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood / Mark Walling
  • Mars attacks!: Burton, Tocqueville, and the self-organizing power of the American people / Paul A. Cantor
  • "Pinioned by a chain of reasoning"? Anti-intellectualism and models of rationality in Tim Burton's Sleepy hollow / Steve Benton
  • Culture, hermeneutics, and the Batman / Kevin S. Decker
  • Burtonology: metaphysics, epistemology, essences, Christmas, and Vincent Price / Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray
  • A symphony of horror: the sublime synesthesia of Sweeney Todd / Jennifer L. Jenkins
  • Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, and the fantastic / Deborah Knight and George McKnight
  • It's uncanny: death in Tim Burton's corpus / Jennifer L. McMahon
  • Affect without illusion: the films of Edward D. Wood Jr. after Ed Wood / David Larocca
  • Little Burton blue: Tim Burton and the product(ion) of color in the fairy-tale films The nightmare before Christmas and Corpse bride / Debbie Olson.