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Tim Burton : essays on the films /

"Since his early days at Disney, Tim Burton has possessed a unique talent and vision. Though his name has become synonymous with the macabre and the odd, Burton's films often reveal and champion the flawed human in us all"--

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cheu, Johnson, 1969- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]
Subjects:
Burton, Tim, > 1958- > Criticism and interpretation.
Burton, Tim, > 1958-
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Movies and the Art of Humanity / Johnson Cheu
  • Outsider Characters and Other Oddities: "Why Spend Your Life Making Someone Else's Dreams?". Ed Wood Comes Out and Makes His Own Dreams in a Fluffy Pink Angora Sweater / Gael Sweeney
  • An Odd Quest Continued: The Heroes of Tim Burton / Rachel S. McCoppin
  • Mixed Assortment: The Typical and Atypical Body in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory / Elizabeth Leigh Scherman
  • Corporeal Mediation and Visibility in Sleepy Hollow / Lori Parks
  • Capitalism and Its Discontents: Gender, Property and Nature in Batman Returns, Sleepy Hollow and Corpse Bride / Susan M. Bernardo
  • The Nature of Adaptations Becoming the Stories: Indefinite Play in Big Fish / Lisa K. Perdigao
  • Mixing Man and Monkey in Planet of the Apes / Kimiko Akita and Rick Kenney
  • "A Stranger in a Sea of Familiar Faces": Self-Referentiality, Bodily Hauntings and Materializing Identity in Dark Shadows / Lance Norman
  • "Attend the Tale": Burton's Transformation of Sweeney Todd from Stage Epic to Screen Intimacy / Brian D. Holcomb
  • Navigating the Risks of Re-Adaptation: Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory After Dahl and Stuart / Pamela Krayenbuhl
  • The Kids Aren't Alright: Childhood Liminality and the Monstrous-Cute in Burton's Roald Dahl Adaptations / Sarah Downes
  • Technology, Artistry and Stardom Converging Worlds: Neo-Victorianism in the Stop-Motion Films / Kara M. Manning
  • The Use of German Expressionism and American Exceptionalism / Peter C. Kunze
  • "I'm Not Finished": Gender Transgression and Star Persona in Edward Scissorhands / Deborah Mellamphy.