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The philosophy of Tim Burton

The philosophy of Tim Burton [electronic resource] / edited by Jennifer L. McMahon. - Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780813144641 0813144647


Burton, Tim--Criticism and interpretation.


Electronic books.

PN1998.3.B875 / P55 2014

791.4302/33092