Critical Companion to Tim Burton

A Critical Companion to Tim Burton is a comprehensive examination of Tim Burton's entire artistic career and film oeuvre. Each chapter in this book is scholarly yet accessible and the perspectives come from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

Adam Barkman is associate professor and chair of the Philosophy department at Redeemer University College. Antonio Sanna is a regular contributor to Interactions: Literature and Culture, Kinema and The Quint.

Introduction Section I: Constructing Worlds Chapter 1: Burton's Bowl: Constructions of Space in the Films of Tim Burton by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock Chapter 2: The Abject, Carnivalesque, and Uncanny by Fran Pheasant-Kelly Chapter 3: The Dark and the Darker: The Meaning and Significance of Dark and Light Colors in Tim Burton Films by Orsolya Karacsony Chapter 4: Traces of Surrealism in the Work of Tim Burton by Sabine Planka Chapter 5: Tim Burton's Artists of Death by Elsa Colombani Chapter 6: The Interconnectivity of Elfman's Film Scoring and Burton's Narrative by Andrew S. Powell Section II: Fairy Worlds and Nightmares Chapter 7: Nightmares and the Struggle for Existence in Alice in Wonderland and Planet of the Apes by Antonio Sanna Chapter 8: Reading Burton's TheNightmare Before Christmas with Paul Tillich by Christopher M. Cuthill Chapter 9: Deconstructing (and Reconstructing) the Fairy Tale in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride by Alissa Burger Chapter 10: Mars Attacks! as Fractured Fairy Tale under Tolkien's Principles of Recovery, Escape, and Consolation by Nicole Pramik Chapter 11: The Heroic Journey of Ed Wood by Carl Sobocinski Chapter 12: The Paranormal Hero as a Boundary-Crosser by Maria Dicieanu Chapter 13: Miss Peregrine's: New Home for a Peculiar Problem by Trip McCrossin Section III: Identity and the World Chapter 14: A Colonial Tapestry: Race and Ideology in Pee-wee's BigAdventure by Florent Christol Chapter 15: Willy Wonka as a Contemporary Dandy by Radoslaw Osinski Chapter 16: Batman, Burton, and the Puzzle of Identity by Kyle Alkema and Adam Barkman Chapter 17: Fools on the Hill: Tim Burton's Nietzschean Outcasts and Heidegger's das Man by Siobhan Lyons Chapter 18: "My Whole Life Is a Dark Room": Nostalgia and Domesticity in Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands by Renee Middlemost Chapter 19: Tim Burton and the Determinist Impulse by Brent Peters and Adam Barkman Chapter 20: Doll Doubles: Female Identity in Tim Burton's Stop-Motion Films by Donna Mitchell