A Critical Companion to Tim Burton

Unlike anything currently available, A Critical Companion to Tim Burton is a comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of all the works of one of the world's most renowned directors and artists. Written by some of the top scholars working in fields as diverse as philosophy, film and media studies, and literature, all chapters of this book illuminate for both scholars and fans alike the entire artistic career of Burton, giving attention to both his early works and his global blockbusters.

Alissa Burger is Associate Professor of English at Culver-Stockton College, USA. She teaches courses in research, writing, and literature, specializing in gender, horror, and the Gothic. She is the author of IT, Chapters One & Two (2023), The Quest for the Dark Tower: Genre and Interconnection in the Stephen King Series (2021), Teaching Stephen King: Horror, The Supernatural, and New Approaches to Literature (2016) and The Wizard of Oz as American Myth: A Critical Study of Six Versions of the Story, 1900-2007 (2012).

Elsa Colombani is an independent scholar and film critic.

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock is Professor of English at Central Michigan University, USA, and the author or editor of 25 books. He is a world expert on monsters and his relevant book publications include Giving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema (2021, co-edited with Regina Hansen); The Monster Theory Reader (2020); The Cambridge Companion to the American Gothic (2018); The Age of Lovecraft (2016, co-edited with Carl Sederholm); The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters (2014); The Vampire Film: Undead Cinema (2012); Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women (2008); and Spectral America: Phantoms and the National Imagination (2004).