Research Catalog

Title

Tim Burton : essays on the films / edited by Johnson Cheu.

Publication

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Cheu, Johnson, 1969-

Description

x, 243 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"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"--

Subject

• Burton, Tim, 1958- > Criticism and interpretation
• Burton, Tim, 1958-

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Includes filmography (pages 229-231).

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.

Call Number

MWES (Burton, T.) 16-1684

ISBN

• 9780786498000
• 0786498005

LCCN

2015045635

OCLC

930786517

Title

Tim Burton : essays on the films / edited by Johnson Cheu.

Publisher

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography (pages 229-231).

Added Author

Cheu, Johnson, 1969- editor.

Research Call Number

MWES (Burton, T.) 16-1684