Tim Burton's Bodies

Gothic, Animated, Creaturely and Corporeal

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Av Stella Hockenhull, Fran Pheasant-Kelly, University of Wolverhampton) Hockenhull, Stella (Reader in Film and Television Studies, University of Wolverhampton) Pheasant-Kelly, Fran (Reader in Screen Studies

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Tim Burton is an internationally celebrated director, critically acclaimed for his fantasy horror films and the macabre ghosts, animated corpses and grotesques that inhabit them. 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. It broadens the focus of living forms to include animated, creaturely, corporeal and Gothic bodies, exploring the way that Burton celebrates the body – whether human, animal, animated or anthropomorphised. In prioritising the somatic aspects of characters, Tim Burton’s Bodies spotlights actual physical attributes and behaviour, and considers what meanings these may impart in terms of race, class, gender, sexuality, humanimality and disability.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-03-16
Mått156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt604 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474456906

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List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Tim Burton’s Bodies - Stella Hockenhull and Fran Pheasant-KellyPart One: Animated Bodies1. Transformation: Metamorphosis, Animation and Fairy Tale in the Work of Tim Burton - Samantha Moore2. Agreeing to be a ‘Burton Body’: Developing the Corpse Bride Story - Emily Mantell3. Tim Burton’s Unruly Animation - Christopher Holliday4. Corpse Bride: Animation, Animated Corpses, and the Gothic - Elif BoyacioğluPart Two: Creaturely Bodies5. Burton, Apes and Race: The Creaturely Politics of Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes - Christopher Parr6. Dead Pets’ Society: Gothic Animal Bodies in the Films of Tim Burton - Rebecca Lloyd7. Too Dark for Disney: Tim Burton, Children’s Horror and Pet Death - Claire Parkinson8. Monstrous Masculinity: ‘Becoming Centaur’ in Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow - Stella Hockenhull9. Anomalous Bodies in Tim Burton’s Bestiary: Reimagining Dumbo - Fran Pheasant-KellyPart Three: Corporeal Bodies10. All of Us Cannibals: Eating Bodies in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Elsa Colombani11. ‘I Might Just Split a Seam’: Fabric and Somatic Integrity in the Work of Tim Burton - Cath Davies12. The Semiotics of a Broken Body: Tim Burton’s Use of Synecdoche - Helena Bassil-Morozow13. Art and the Organ Without a Body: ‘The Jar’ as Burton’s Artistic Manifesto - Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns14. ‘Hell Here!’: Tim Burton’s Destruction of Michelle Pfeiffer in Batman Returns - Peter PiatkowskiPart Four: Gothic, Monstrous and Peculiar Bodies15. The Grotesque Social Outcast in the Films of Tim Burton - Michael Lipiner and Thomas J. Cobb16. ‘A Giant Man Can’t Have an Ordinary-Sized Life’: On Tim Burton’s Big Fish - José Duarte and Ana Rita Martins17. Tim Burton’s Curious Bodies in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children: A Contemporary Tale of the Grotesque - Marie Liénard-Yeterian18. Asexuality and Social Anxiety: The Perils of a Peculiar Body - Alexandra Hackett19. Burton’s Benevolently Monstrous Frankensteins - Robert GealBibliographyFilmographyIndex

This exemplary cross-disciplinary collection addressing Burton’s films through the lens of the somatic, demonstrates considerable empathy for, and sympathy with, his miscellany of outsiders, grotesques, and monsters. Whether animated, animal, or aberrant, Burton’s corporeal and material menagerie is explored with insight and originality. This fresh focus on Burton’s preoccupation with the ‘weird is normal’ serves to show how unruly otherness and alternative perspectives shed a penetrating light upon our assumptions about the human condition.