A Critical Companion to Tim Burton

Contents
Introduction
Section I: Constructing Worlds
	1 Burton’s Bowl: Constructions of Space in the Films of Tim Burton
	2 The Abject, Carnivalesque, and Uncanny
	3 The Dark and the Darker: The Meaning and Significance of Dark and Light Colors in Tim Burton Films
	4 Traces of Surrealism in the Work of Tim Burton
	5 Tim Burton’s Artists of Death
	6 The Interconnectivity of Elfman’s Film Scoring and Burton’s Narrative
Section II: Fairy Worlds and Nightmares
	7 Nightmares and the Struggle for Existence in Alice in Wonderland and Planet of the Apes
	8 Reading Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas with Paul Tillich
	9 Deconstructing (and Reconstructing) the Fairy Tale in Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride
	10 Mars Attacks! as Fractured Fairy Tale under Tolkien’s Principles of Recovery, Escape, and Consolation
	11 The Heroic Journey of Ed Wood
	12 The Paranormal Hero as a Boundary-Crosser
	13 Miss Peregrine’s: New Home for a Peculiar Problem
Section III: Identity and the World
	14 A Colonial Tapestry: Race and Ideology in Pee-wee’s Big Adventure
	15 Willy Wonka as a Contemporary Dandy
	16 Batman, Burton, and the Puzzle of Identity
	17 Fools on the Hill: Tim Burton’s Nietzschean Outcasts and Heidegger’s das Man
	18 “My Whole Life Is a Dark Room”: Nostalgia and Domesticity in Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands
	19 Tim Burton and the Determinist Impulse
	20 Doll Doubles: Female Identity in Tim Burton’s Stop-Motion Films
Index
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