Tim Burton's Bodies

Gothic, Animated, Creaturely and Corporeal

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Edited by Stella Hockenhull and Fran Pheasant-Kelly

Type

Studies

Subject

Director > Tim Burton

Keywords

Tim Burton, characters, gothic

Publishing date

2022

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

1st publishing

2021

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 320 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4744-5691-3

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Book Presentation:
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.

About the authors:
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.

Press 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

Tim Burton’s Bodies provides a distinctive body-centric approach to the analysis of Burton’s back-catalogue of animated and live-action films. -- Anna Blagrove ― Fantasy Animation

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