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The philosophy of Tim Burton /

Director and producer Tim Burton impresses audiences with stunning visuals, sinister fantasy worlds, and characters whose personalities are strange and yet familiar. Drawing inspiration from sources as varied as Lewis Carroll, Salvador Dalí, Washington Irving, and Dr. Seuss, Burton's creations...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: McMahon, Jennifer L. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Burton and identity. Fishing for the [mediating] self: identity and storytelling in Big fish / Ken Hada
  • Catwoman and subjectivity: constructions of identity and power in Tim Burton's Batman returns / Ryan Weldon
  • The consolations and dangers of fantasy: Burton, Poe, and Vincent / Daniel Sullivan
  • Johnny Depp is a big baby! the philosophical significance of Tim Burton's preoccupation with childhood consciousness in Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood / Mark Walling
  • Burton and authority. Mars attacks!: Burton, Tocqueville, and the self-organizing power of the American people / Paul A. Cantor
  • "Pinioned by a chain of reasoning"? anti-intellectualism and models of rationality in Tim Burton's Sleepy hollow / Steve Benton
  • Culture, hermeneutics, and the Batman / Kevin S. Decker
  • Burtonology: metaphysics, epistemology, essences, Christmas, and Vincent Price / Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray
  • Burton and aesthetics. A symphony of horror: the sublime synesthesia of Sweeney Todd / Jennifer L. Jenkins
  • Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, and the fantastic / Deborah Knight and George McKnight
  • It's uncanny: death in Tim Burton's corpus / Jennifer L. McMahon
  • Affect without illusion: the films of Edward D. Wood Jr. after Ed Wood / David Larocca
  • Little Burton blue: Tim Burton and the product(ion) of color in the fairy-tale films The nightmare before Christmas and Corpse bride / Debbie Olson.