A Critical Companion to Tim Burton

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Burton's Bowl: Constructions of Space in the Films of Tim Burton / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock -- The Abject, Carnivalesque, and Uncanny / Fran Pheasant-Kelly -- The Dark and the Darker: The Meaning and Significance of Dark and Light Colors in Tim Burton Films / Orsolya Karácsony -- Traces of Surrealism in the Work of Tim Burton / Sabine Planka -- Tim Burton's Artists of Death / Elsa Colombani -- The Interconnectivity of Elfman's Film Scoring and Burton's Narrative / Andrew S. Powell -- Nightmares and the Struggle for Existence in Alice in Wonderland and Planet of the Apes / Antonio Sanna -- Reading Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas with Paul Tillich / Christopher M. Cuthill -- Deconstructing (and Reconstructing) the Fairy Tale in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride / Alissa Burger -- Mars Attacks! as Fractured Fairy Tale under Tolkien's Principles of Recovery, Escape, and Consolation / Nicole Pramik -- The Heroic Journey of Ed Wood / Carl Sobocinski -- The Paranormal Hero as a Boundary-Crosser / Maria Dicieanu -- Miss Peregrine's: New Home for a Peculiar Problem / Trip McCrossin -- A Colonial Tapestry: Race and Ideology in Pee-wee's Big Adventure / Florent Christol -- Willy Wonka as a Contemporary Dandy / Radosław Osiński -- Batman, Burton, and the Puzzle of Identity / Kyle Alkema and Adam Barkman -- Fools on the Hill: Tim Burton's Nietzschean Outcasts and Heidegger's das Man / Siobhan Lyons -- "My Whole Life Is a Dark Room": Nostalgia and Domesticity in Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands / Renee Middlemost -- Tim Burton and the Determinist Impulse / Brent Peters and Adam Barkman -- Doll Doubles: Female Identity in Tim Burton's Stop-Motion Films / Donna Mitchell.;A Critical Companion to Tim Burton is a comprehensive examination of Tim Burton's entire artistic career and film oeuvre. Each chapter in this book is scholarly yet accessible and the perspectives come from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Burton's Bowl: Constructions of Space in the Films of Tim Burton / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock -- The Abject, Carnivalesque, and Uncanny / Fran Pheasant-Kelly -- The Dark and the Darker: The Meaning and Significance of Dark and Light Colors in Tim Burton Films / Orsolya Karácsony -- Traces of Surrealism in the Work of Tim Burton / Sabine Planka -- Tim Burton's Artists of Death / Elsa Colombani -- The Interconnectivity of Elfman's Film Scoring and Burton's Narrative / Andrew S. Powell -- Nightmares and the Struggle for Existence in Alice in Wonderland and Planet of the Apes / Antonio Sanna -- Reading Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas with Paul Tillich / Christopher M. Cuthill -- Deconstructing (and Reconstructing) the Fairy Tale in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride / Alissa Burger -- Mars Attacks! as Fractured Fairy Tale under Tolkien's Principles of Recovery, Escape, and Consolation / Nicole Pramik -- The Heroic Journey of Ed Wood / Carl Sobocinski -- The Paranormal Hero as a Boundary-Crosser / Maria Dicieanu -- Miss Peregrine's: New Home for a Peculiar Problem / Trip McCrossin -- A Colonial Tapestry: Race and Ideology in Pee-wee's Big Adventure / Florent Christol -- Willy Wonka as a Contemporary Dandy / Radosław Osiński -- Batman, Burton, and the Puzzle of Identity / Kyle Alkema and Adam Barkman -- Fools on the Hill: Tim Burton's Nietzschean Outcasts and Heidegger's das Man / Siobhan Lyons -- "My Whole Life Is a Dark Room": Nostalgia and Domesticity in Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands / Renee Middlemost -- Tim Burton and the Determinist Impulse / Brent Peters and Adam Barkman -- Doll Doubles: Female Identity in Tim Burton's Stop-Motion Films / Donna Mitchell.