Overview

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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Author:   Stella Hockenhull (Reader in Film and Television Studies, University of Wolverhampton) ,  Fran Pheasant-Kelly (Reader in Screen Studies, University of Wolverhampton)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9781474456906

ISBN 10:   1474456901
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   16 March 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgments 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 Boyacioğlu 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 BibliographyFilmographyIndex

Reviews

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. -- Professor Paul Wells, Loughborough University

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.--Professor Paul Wells, Loughborough University

Author Information

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.

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