Critical Companion to Tim Burton

Herausgeber: Barkman, Adam; Sanna, Antonio

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Produktbeschreibung

A Critical Companion to Tim Burton is a comprehensive examination of Tim Burton's entire artistic career and film oeuvre. Each chapter in this book is scholarly yet accessible and the perspectives come from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781498552721
• ISBN-10: 1498552722
• Artikelnr.: 48896142

Autorenporträt

Adam Barkman is associate professor and chair of the Philosophy department at Redeemer University College. Antonio Sanna is a regular contributor to Interactions: Literature and Culture, Kinema and The Quint.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Section I: Constructing Worlds
Chapter 1: Burton's Bowl: Constructions of Space in the Films of Tim Burton
by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Chapter 2: The Abject, Carnivalesque, and Uncanny by Fran Pheasant-Kelly
Chapter 3: The Dark and the Darker: The Meaning and Significance of Dark
and Light Colors in Tim Burton Films by Orsolya Karacsony
Chapter 4: Traces of Surrealism in the Work of Tim Burton by Sabine Planka
Chapter 5: Tim Burton's Artists of Death by Elsa Colombani
Chapter 6: The Interconnectivity of Elfman's Film Scoring and Burton's
Narrative by Andrew S. Powell
Section II: Fairy Worlds and Nightmares
Chapter 7: Nightmares and the Struggle for Existence in Alice in Wonderland
and Planet of the Apes by Antonio Sanna
Chapter 8: Reading Burton's TheNightmare Before Christmas with Paul Tillich
by Christopher M. Cuthill
Chapter 9: Deconstructing (and Reconstructing) the Fairy Tale in Tim
Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride by Alissa Burger
Chapter 10: Mars Attacks! as Fractured Fairy Tale under Tolkien's
Principles of Recovery, Escape, and Consolation by Nicole Pramik
Chapter 11: The Heroic Journey of Ed Wood by Carl Sobocinski
Chapter 12: The Paranormal Hero as a Boundary-Crosser by Maria Dicieanu
Chapter 13: Miss Peregrine's: New Home for a Peculiar Problem by Trip
McCrossin
Section III: Identity and the World
Chapter 14: A Colonial Tapestry: Race and Ideology in Pee-wee's
BigAdventure by Florent Christol
Chapter 15: Willy Wonka as a Contemporary Dandy by Radoslaw Osinski
Chapter 16: Batman, Burton, and the Puzzle of Identity by Kyle Alkema and
Adam Barkman
Chapter 17: Fools on the Hill: Tim Burton's Nietzschean Outcasts and
Heidegger's das Man by Siobhan Lyons
Chapter 18: "My Whole Life Is a Dark Room": Nostalgia and Domesticity in
Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands by Renee Middlemost
Chapter 19: Tim Burton and the Determinist Impulse by Brent Peters and Adam
Barkman
Chapter 20: Doll Doubles: Female Identity in Tim Burton's Stop-Motion Films
by Donna Mitchell