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Format: 1 online resource (320 p.) : , 36 B/W illustrations

ISBN: 9781474456920

Content: Offers a novel, body-centric approach to Burton’s films that provides a distinctive way to consider his filmmakingExplores unique technical personnel perspectives into creative processes of Corpse Bride that enhances knowledge about Burton as a filmmaker, and provides previously undocumented facts about the filmIncludes a range of theoretical approaches, drawn from psychoanalysis, philosophy, animal studies, aesthetics, feminism and representationProvides a multidisciplinary approach with inclusion of animal studies’ expertise that illuminates different strategies for analysing characters/bodiesExamines works including The Jar that are little explored and which will extend knowledge of Burton’s canonProvides up-to-date research including Burton’s most recent film Dumbo (2019)Tim Burton is an internationally celebrated director, critically acclaimed for his fantasy horror films and the macabre ghosts, animated corpses and grotesques that inhabit them. This innovative study centres on the body as a centripetal force in Burton’s work and considers the array of anomalous, extraordinary and transgressive beings that pervade his canon. It broadens the focus of living forms to include animated, creaturely, corporeal and Gothic bodies, exploring the way that Burton celebrates the body – whether human, animal, animated or anthropomorphised.In prioritising the somatic aspects of characters, Tim Burton’s Bodies spotlights actual physical attributes and behaviour, and considers what meanings these may impart in terms of race, class, gender, sexuality, humanimality and disability.

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , FIGURES -- , NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- , ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- , INTRODUCTION -- , PART ONE. ANIMATED BODIES -- , 1. TRANSFORMATION: METAMORPHOSIS, ANIMATION AND FAIRY TALE IN THE WORK OF TIM BURTON -- , 2. AGREEING TO BE A ‘BURTON BODY’: DEVELOPING THE CORPSE BRIDE STORY -- , 3. TIM BURTON’S UNRULY ANIMATION -- , 4. CORPSE BRIDE: ANIMATION, ANIMATED CORPSES AND THE GOTHIC -- , PART TWO. CREATURELY BODIES -- , 5. BURTON, APES AND RACE: THE CREATURELY POLITICS OF TIM BURTON’S PLANET OF THE APES -- , 6. DEAD PETS’ SOCIETY: GOTHIC ANIMAL BODIES IN THE FILMS OF TIM BURTON -- , 7. TOO DARK FOR DISNEY: TIM BURTON, CHILDREN’S HORROR AND PET DEATH -- , 8. MONSTROUS MASCULINITY: ‘BECOMING CENTAUR’ IN TIM BURTON’S SLEEPY HOLLOW -- , 9. ANOMALOUS BODIES IN TIM BURTON’S BESTIARY: REIMAGINING DUMBO -- , PART THREE. CORPOREAL BODIES -- , 10. ALL OF US CANNIBALS: EATING BODIES IN CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY AND SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET -- , 11. ‘I MIGHT JUST SPLIT A SEAM’: FABRIC AND SOMATIC INTEGRITY IN THE WORK OF TIM BURTON -- , 12. THE SEMIOTICS OF A BROKEN BODY: TIM BURTON’S USE OF SYNECDOCHE -- , 13. ART AND THE ORGAN WITHOUT A BODY: ‘THE JAR’ AS BURTON’S ARTISTIC MANIFESTO -- , 14. ‘HELL HERE!’: TIM BURTON’S DESTRUCTION OF MICHELLE PFEIFFER IN BATMAN RETURNS -- , PART FOUR. GOTHIC, MONSTROUS AND PECULIAR BODIES -- , 15. THE GROTESQUE SOCIAL OUTCAST IN THE FILMS OF TIM BURTON -- , 16. ‘A GIANT MAN CAN’T HAVE AN ORDINARY-SIZED LIFE’: ON TIM BURTON’S BIG FISH -- , 17. TIM BURTON’S CURIOUS BODIES IN MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN: A CONTEMPORARY TALE OF THE GROTESQUE -- , 18. ASEXUALITY AND SOCIAL ANXIETY: THE PERILS OF A PECULIAR BODY -- , 19. BURTON’S BENEVOLENTLY MONSTROUS FRANKENSTEINS -- , BIBLIOGRAPHY -- , FILM AND TELEVISION -- , INDEX , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781474456920

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474456920

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474456920