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Title: The Films of Tim Burton: Animating Live Action in Contemporary Hollywood
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date: 2005
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0826415679
ISBN 13: 9780826415677
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition.
Condition: Good
Book Type: Book

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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.

About the Author

Alison McMahan is an award-winning screenwriter, author, and filmmaker. She is the president of Homunculus Productions, LLC. Her most recent film is Bare Hands and Wooden Limbs (2010) narrated by Sam Waterston. She is currently in post-production on the feature documentary The Eight Faces of Jane (2013) and the short documentary Gluteus Maxximus (2012). She has over twenty years of experience in film production, both in the U.S. and abroad, producing, directing and writing industrials, training films, and short fiction films. More information on her film work can be found at www.HomunculusProds.com.

She is the author the award-winning book Alice Guy Blach�, Lost Visionary of the Cinema (Continuum 2002), which was translated into Spanish by Plots Ediciones and has been optioned by the PIC agency to be made into a documentary film. She is also the author of The Films of Tim Burton: Animating Live Action in Hollywood (Continuum 2005) as well as numerous newspaper and scholarly articles on film and new media, www.AliceGuyBlache.com and www.FilmsofTimBurton.com. Full list of publications can be found at www.AlisonMcMahan.com.

She is currently working on a historical novel.

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