The Films of Tim Burton: Animating Live Action in Contemporary Hollywood
- ISBN-10
- 1441199144
- ISBN-13
- 9781441199140
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 278
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-08-21
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- Author
- Alison McMahan
Description
Most Tim Burton films are huge box-office successes, and several are already classics. The director's mysterious and eccentric public persona attracts a lot of attention, while the films themselves have been somewhat overlooked. Here, Alison McMahan redresses this imbalance through a close analysis of Burton's key films () and their industrial context. She argues that Burton has been a crucial figure behind many of the transformations taking place in horror, fantasy, and sci-fi films over the last two decades, and demonstrates how his own work draws on a huge range of artistic influences: the films of George Melies, surrealism, installation art, computer games, and many more. The Films of Tim Burton is the most in-depth analysis so far of the work of this unusual filmmaker - a director who has shown repeatedly that it is possible to reject mainstream Hollywood contentions while maintaining critical popularrity and commercial success.
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