The Works of Tim Burton [electronic resource] : Margins to Mainstream /
Weinstock, J.editor.
Tim Burton has had a massive impact on twentieth and twenty-first century culture through his films, art, and writings. This book examines how his aesthetics, influences, and themes reflect the shifting social expectations in American culture by tracing his Burton's move from a peripheral figure in the 1980s to the center of Hollywood filmmaking.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Mainstream Outsider: Burton Adapts Burton; Part I: Aesthetics; 1 Burton Black; 2 Costuming the Outsider in Tim Burton's Cinema, or, Why a Corset Is like a Codfish; 3 Danny Elfman's Musical Fantasyland, or, Listening to a Snow Globe; 4 Tim Burton's "Filled" Spaces: Alice in Wonderland; Part II: Influences and Contexts; 5 How to See Things Differently: Tim Burton's Reimaginings; 6 "He wants to be just like Vincent Price": Influence and Intertext in the Gothic Films of Tim Burton; 7 Tim Burton's Trash Cinema Roots: Ed Wood and Mars Attacks!
8 A Monstrous Childhood: Edward Gorey's Influence on Tim Burton's The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy9 It Came from Burbank: Exhibiting the Art of Tim Burton; 10 "Tim Is Very Personal": Sketching a Portrait of Tim Burton's Auteurist Fandom and Its Origins; Part III: Thematics; 11 Tim Burton's Popularization of Perversity: Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Sleepy Hollow, and Corpse Bride; 12 "This is my art, and it is dangerous!": Tim Burton's Artist-Heroes; 13 Tim Burton and the Creative Trickster: A Case Study of Three Films; Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Tim Burton has had a massive impact on twentieth and twenty-first century culture through his films, art, and writings. This book examines how his aesthetics, influences, and themes reflect the shifting social expectations in American culture by tracing his Burton's move from a peripheral figure in the 1980s to the center of Hollywood filmmaking.
Burton, Tim, 1958-
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