Tim Burton's bodies : gothic, animated, corporeal and creaturely / edited by Stella Hockenhull and Frances Pheasant-Kelly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hockenhull, Stella, Author.

Contributor:

Hockenhull, Stella, editor.

Pheasant-Kelly, Frances, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-5693-6

1-4744-5692-8

OCLC:

1246577926