A Critical Companion to Tim Burton

Adam Barkman; Antonio Sanna

doi:10.5771/9781498552738

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Copyright year: 2017
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-5272-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-5273-8
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 249
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Introduction No access
1. 1 Burton’s Bowl: Constructions of Space in the Films of Tim Burton No access
2. 2 The Abject, Carnivalesque, and Uncanny No access
3. 3 The Dark and the Darker: The Meaning and Significance of Dark and Light Colors in Tim Burton Films No access
4. 4 Traces of Surrealism in the Work of Tim Burton No access
5. 5 Tim Burton’s Artists of Death No access
6. 6 The Interconnectivity of Elfman’s Film Scoring and Burton’s Narrative No access
1. 7 Nightmares and the Struggle for Existence in Alice in Wonderland and Planet of the Apes No access
2. 8 Reading Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas with Paul Tillich No access
3. 9 Deconstructing (and Reconstructing) the Fairy Tale in Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride No access
4. 10 Mars Attacks! as Fractured Fairy Tale under Tolkien’s Principles of Recovery, Escape, and Consolation No access
5. 11 The Heroic Journey of Ed Wood No access
6. 12 The Paranormal Hero as a Boundary-Crosser No access
7. 13 Miss Peregrine’s: New Home for a Peculiar Problem No access
1. 14 A Colonial Tapestry: Race and Ideology in Pee-wee’s Big Adventure No access
2. 15 Willy Wonka as a Contemporary Dandy No access
3. 16 Batman, Burton, and the Puzzle of Identity No access
4. 17 Fools on the Hill: Tim Burton’s Nietzschean Outcasts and Heidegger’s das Man No access
5. 18 “My Whole Life Is a Dark Room”: Nostalgia and Domesticity in Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands No access
6. 19 Tim Burton and the Determinist Impulse No access
7. 20 Doll Doubles: Female Identity in Tim Burton’s Stop-Motion Films No access
Index No access Pages 241 - 244
About the Contributors No access Pages 245 - 249