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

This innovative study centres on the body as a centripetal force in Tim Burton's work, exploring 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, examining the way Burton celebrates the body.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 21 December 2022
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Introduction:

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 centers 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 anthropomorphized.

Body-Centric Approach:

In prioritizing the somatic aspects of characters, Tim Burton's Bodies spotlights actual physical attributes and behavior, and considers what meanings these may impart in terms of race, class, gender, sexuality, human-imality, and disability. Offers a novel, body-centric approach to Burton's films that provides a distinctive way to consider his filmmaking.

Explores unique technical personnel perspectives into the creative processes of Corpse Bride that enhances knowledge about Burton as a filmmaker and provides previously undocumented facts about the film.

Includes a range of theoretical approaches, drawn from psychoanalysis, philosophy, animal studies, aesthetics, feminism, and representation, that provide a multidisciplinary approach with inclusion of animal studies expertise that illuminates different strategies for analyzing characters/bodies.

Examines works including The Jar, which are little explored, and which will extend knowledge of Burton's canon.

Provides up-to-date research, including Burton's most recent film, Dumbo (2019), that will further extend knowledge of his canon.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474456913