A Critical Companion to Tim Burton

Adam Barkman; Antonio Sanna

doi:10.5771/9781498552738

Zusammenfassung

Unlike anything currently available, A Critical Companion to Tim Burton is a comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of all the works of one of the world's most renowned directors and artists. Written by some of the top scholars working in fields as diverse as philosophy, film and media studies, and literature, all chapters of this book illuminate for both scholars and fans alike the entire artistic career of Burton, giving attention to both his early works and his global blockbusters.

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Copyrightjahr: 2017
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-5272-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-5273-8
Verlag: Lexington, Lanham
Sprache: Englisch
Seiten: 249
Produkttyp: Sammelband

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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1. Contents Kein Zugriff
2. Introduction Kein Zugriff
1. 1 Burton’s Bowl: Constructions of Space in the Films of Tim Burton Kein Zugriff
2. 2 The Abject, Carnivalesque, and Uncanny Kein Zugriff
3. 3 The Dark and the Darker: The Meaning and Significance of Dark and Light Colors in Tim Burton Films Kein Zugriff
4. 4 Traces of Surrealism in the Work of Tim Burton Kein Zugriff
5. 5 Tim Burton’s Artists of Death Kein Zugriff
6. 6 The Interconnectivity of Elfman’s Film Scoring and Burton’s Narrative Kein Zugriff
1. 7 Nightmares and the Struggle for Existence in Alice in Wonderland and Planet of the Apes Kein Zugriff
2. 8 Reading Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas with Paul Tillich Kein Zugriff
3. 9 Deconstructing (and Reconstructing) the Fairy Tale in Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride Kein Zugriff
4. 10 Mars Attacks! as Fractured Fairy Tale under Tolkien’s Principles of Recovery, Escape, and Consolation Kein Zugriff
5. 11 The Heroic Journey of Ed Wood Kein Zugriff
6. 12 The Paranormal Hero as a Boundary-Crosser Kein Zugriff
7. 13 Miss Peregrine’s: New Home for a Peculiar Problem Kein Zugriff
1. 14 A Colonial Tapestry: Race and Ideology in Pee-wee’s Big Adventure Kein Zugriff
2. 15 Willy Wonka as a Contemporary Dandy Kein Zugriff
3. 16 Batman, Burton, and the Puzzle of Identity Kein Zugriff
4. 17 Fools on the Hill: Tim Burton’s Nietzschean Outcasts and Heidegger’s das Man Kein Zugriff
5. 18 “My Whole Life Is a Dark Room”: Nostalgia and Domesticity in Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands Kein Zugriff
6. 19 Tim Burton and the Determinist Impulse Kein Zugriff
7. 20 Doll Doubles: Female Identity in Tim Burton’s Stop-Motion Films Kein Zugriff
Index Kein Zugriff Seiten 241 - 244
About the Contributors Kein Zugriff Seiten 245 - 249