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Tim Burton's Bodies
Gothic, Animated, Creaturely and Corporeal
Edited by Stella Hockenhull and Fran Pheasant-Kelly
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Book Presentation:
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 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
• Provides a multidisciplinary approach with inclusion of animal studies’ expertise that illuminates different strategies for analysing characters/bodies
• Examines works including The Jar that 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)
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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