Tim Burton's Bodies: Gothic, Animated, Creaturely and Corporeal

ISBN-13: 9781474456913 / Angielski

Stella Hockenhull;Fran Pheasant-Kelly

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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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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 Boyacio?lu; 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