- Additional Authors
- McMahon, Jennifer L.
- Description
- 298 pages; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Philosophy of popular culture
- Uniform Title
- Philosophy of popular culture.
- Subject
- Burton, Tim, 1958- > Criticism and interpretation
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- MWES (Burton, T.) 14-4574
- ISBN
- 9780813144627 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0813144620 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780813144641 (pdf) (canceled/invalid)
- 0813144647 (pdf) (canceled/invalid)
- 9780813144634 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014005231
- OCLC
- 858901770
- Title
The philosophy of Tim Burton / edited by Jennifer L. McMahon.
- Publisher
Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2014]
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Series
Philosophy of popular culture
Philosophy of popular culture.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
McMahon, Jennifer L., editor.
- Research Call Number
MWES (Burton, T.) 14-4574