Tim Burton's Bodies

Gothic, Animated, Creaturely and Corporeal
Herausgeber: Hockenhull, Stella; Pheasant-Kelly, Fran

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Produktbeschreibung

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. Stella Hockenhull is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Wolverhampton. Fran Pheasant-Kelly is Reader in Film and Screen Studies, and Director of the Centre for Film, Media, Discourse and Culture at Wolverhampton University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9781474456906
• ISBN-10: 1474456901
• Artikelnr.: 60064504

Autorenporträt

Dr Stella Hockenhull is Reader in Film and Television Studies at the University of Wolverhampton. Dr Fran Pheasant-Kelly is Reader in Screen Studies and Director of Centre for Film, Media, Discourse and Culture at the University of Wolverhampton.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Tim Burton's Bodies, Stella Hockenhull and Fran Pheasant-Kelly
Part One: Animated Bodies
1: Transformation: Metamorphosis, Animation and Fairy Tale in the Work of Tim Burton, Samantha Moore
2: Agreeing to be a 'Burton Body': Developing the Corpse Bride Story, Emily Mantell
3: Tim Burton's Unruly Animation, Christopher Holliday
4: Corpse Bride: Animation, Animated Corpses, and the Gothic, Elif Boyacioglu
Part Two: Creaturely Bodies
5: Burton, Apes and Race: The Creaturely Politics of Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes
Christopher Parr
6: Dead Pets' Society: Gothic Animal Bodies in the Films of Tim Burton, Rebecca Lloyd
7: Too Dark for Disney: Tim Burton, Children's Horror and Pet Death, Claire Parkinson
8: Monstrous Masculinity: 'Becoming Centaur' in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, Stella Hockenhull
9: Anomalous Bodies in Tim Burton's Bestiary: Reimagining Dumbo, Fran Pheasant-Kelly
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, Elsa Colombani
11: 'I Might Just Split a Seam': Fabric and Somatic Integrity in the Work of Tim Burton, Cath Davies
12: The Semiotics of a Broken Body: Tim Burton's Use of Synecdoche, Helena Bassil-Morozow
13: Art and the Organ Without a Body: 'The Jar' as Burton's Artistic Manifesto, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
14: 'Hell Here!': Tim Burton's Destruction of Michelle Pfeiffer in Batman Returns, Peter Piatkowski
Part Four: Gothic, Monstrous and Peculiar Bodies
15: The Grotesque Social Outcast in the Films of Tim Burton, Michael Lipiner and Thomas J. Cobb
16 'A Giant Man Can't Have an Ordinary-Sized Life': On Tim Burton's Big Fish, José Duarte and Ana Rita Martins
17: Tim Burton's Curious Bodies in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children: A Contemporary Tale of the Grotesque, Marie Liénard-Yeterian
18: Asexuality and Social Anxiety: The Perils of a Peculiar Body, Alexandra Hackett
19: Burton's Benevolently Monstrous Frankensteins, Robert Geal
Bibliography
Filmography
Index