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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.
List of contents
Introduction
Section I: Constructing Worlds
Chapter 1: Burton's Bowl: Constructions of Space in the Films of Tim Burton by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Chapter 2: The Abject, Carnivalesque, and Uncanny by Fran Pheasant-Kelly
Chapter 3: The Dark and the Darker: The Meaning and Significance of Dark and Light Colors in Tim Burton Films by Orsolya Karacsony
Chapter 4: Traces of Surrealism in the Work of Tim Burton by Sabine Planka
Chapter 5: Tim Burton's Artists of Death by Elsa Colombani
Chapter 6: The Interconnectivity of Elfman's Film Scoring and Burton's Narrative by Andrew S. Powell
Section II: Fairy Worlds and Nightmares
Chapter 7: Nightmares and the Struggle for Existence in Alice in Wonderland and Planet of the Apes by Antonio Sanna
Chapter 8: Reading Burton's TheNightmare Before Christmas with Paul Tillich by Christopher M. Cuthill
Chapter 9: Deconstructing (and Reconstructing) the Fairy Tale in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride by Alissa Burger
Chapter 10: Mars Attacks! as Fractured Fairy Tale under Tolkien's Principles of Recovery, Escape, and Consolation by Nicole Pramik
Chapter 11: The Heroic Journey of Ed Wood by Carl Sobocinski
Chapter 12: The Paranormal Hero as a Boundary-Crosser by Maria Dicieanu
Chapter 13: Miss Peregrine's: New Home for a Peculiar Problem by Trip McCrossin
Section III: Identity and the World
Chapter 14: A Colonial Tapestry: Race and Ideology in Pee-wee's BigAdventure by Florent Christol
Chapter 15: Willy Wonka as a Contemporary Dandy by Radoslaw Osinski
Chapter 16: Batman, Burton, and the Puzzle of Identity by Kyle Alkema and Adam Barkman
Chapter 17: Fools on the Hill: Tim Burton's Nietzschean Outcasts and Heidegger's das Man by Siobhan Lyons
Chapter 18: "My Whole Life Is a Dark Room": Nostalgia and Domesticity in Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands by Renee Middlemost
Chapter 19: Tim Burton and the Determinist Impulse by Brent Peters and Adam Barkman
Chapter 20: Doll Doubles: Female Identity in Tim Burton's Stop-Motion Films by Donna Mitchell
About the author
Adam Barkman is professor of philosophy at Redeemer University. Antonio Sanna is teaching assistant at the University of Sassari.Alissa Burger is Associate Professor of English at Culver-Stockton College, USA. She teaches courses in research, writing, and literature, specializing in gender, horror, and the Gothic. She is the author of IT, Chapters One & Two (2023), The Quest for the Dark Tower: Genre and Interconnection in the Stephen King Series (2021), Teaching Stephen King: Horror, The Supernatural, and New Approaches to Literature (2016) and The Wizard of Oz as American Myth: A Critical Study of Six Versions of the Story, 1900-2007 (2012).Elsa Colombani is an independent scholar and film critic. Sabine Planka is subject librarian for the humanities at the university library of FernUniversität Hagen (Germany) and visiting lecturer of children’s literature at several universities.
