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Title Tim Burton's bodies : gothic, animated, corporeal and creaturely / edited by Stella Hockenhull and Frances Pheasant-Kelly
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021

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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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Burton, Tim, 1958- -- Themes, motives
SUBJECT Burton, Tim, 1958- fast
Subject Human body in motion pictures.
Human body in motion pictures
Themes, motives
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781474456920
1474456928