The Works of Tim Burton: Margins to Mainstream

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Mainstream Outsider: Burton Adapts Burton....Pages 1-29
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
Burton Black....Pages 33-46
Costuming the Outsider in Tim Burton’s Cinema, or, Why a Corset Is like a Codfish....Pages 47-63
Danny Elfman’s Musical Fantasyland, or, Listening to a Snow Globe....Pages 65-82
Tim Burton’s “Filled” Spaces: Alice in Wonderland....Pages 83-96
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
How to See Things Differently: Tim Burton’s Reimaginings....Pages 99-116
“He wants to be just like Vincent Price”: Influence and Intertext in the Gothic Films of Tim Burton....Pages 117-131
Tim Burton’s Trash Cinema Roots: Ed Wood and Mars Attacks!....Pages 133-149
A Monstrous Childhood: Edward Gorey’s Influence on Tim Burton’s The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy....Pages 151-164
It Came from Burbank: Exhibiting the Art of Tim Burton....Pages 165-178
“Tim Is Very Personal”: Sketching a Portrait of Tim Burton’s Auteurist Fandom and Its Origins....Pages 179-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Tim Burton’s Popularization of Perversity: Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Sleepy Hollow, and Corpse Bride....Pages 197-216
“This is my art, and it is dangerous!”: Tim Burton’s Artist-Heroes....Pages 217-230
Tim Burton and the Creative Trickster: A Case Study of Three Films....Pages 231-244
Back Matter....Pages 245-261