The films of Wes Anderson : critical essays on an Indiewood icon /
Kunze, Peter C.(Peter Christopher),editor.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the Wonderful Worlds of Wes Anderson / Peter C. Kunze -- The Short Films of Wes Anderson / Nicole Richter -- Cast of Characters: Wes Anderson and Pure Cinematic Characterization / Kim Wilkins -- The Jellyfish and the Moonlight: Imagining the Family in Wes Anderson's Films / Steven Rybin -- "Max Fischer Presents": Wes Anderson and the Theatricality of Mourning / Rachel Joseph -- "Who's to Say"?: The Role of Pets in Wes Anderson?s Films / C. Ryan Knight -- "American Empirical" Time and Space: The (In)Visibility of Popular Culture in the Films of Wes Anderson / Jason Davids Scott -- From the Mixed-Up Films of Mr. Wesley W. Anderson: Children's Literature as Intertexts / Peter C. Kunze -- A Shared Approach to Familial Dysfunction and Sound Design: Wes Anderson's Influence on the Films of Noah Baumbach / Jennifer O'Meara -- Bill Murray and Wes Anderson, or the Curmudgeon as Muse / Colleen Kennedy-Karpat -- Life on Mars or Life on the Sea: Seu Jorge, David Bowie, and the Musical World in Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou / Lara Hrycaj -- The Andersonian, the Quirky, and "Innocence" / James MacDowell -- "I Always Wanted to be a Tenenbaum": Class Mobility as Neoliberal Fantasy in Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums / Jen Hedler Phillis -- Objects/Desire/Oedipus: Wes Anderson as Late Capitalist Auteur / Joshua Gooch -- Systems Thinking in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Moonrise Kingdom / Laura Shackelford.
Anderson, Wes, 1969-