I will be writing a review of this volume for the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.

The Works of Time Burton: Margins to Mainstream, edited By Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

Tim Burton has had a massive impact on twentieth and twenty-first century culture through his films, art, and writings. The contributors to this volume examine how his aesthetics, influences, and themes reflect the shifting cinematic practices and social expectations in Hollywood and American culture by tracing Burton’s move from a peripheral figure in the 1980s to the center of Hollywood filmmaking. Attentive not only to Burton’s films but to his art and poetry, this collection explores Burton’s popularity and cultural significance as both a nonconformist and a mainstream auteur.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Mainstream Outsider: Burton Adapts Burton; Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
PART I: AESTHETICS
1. Burton Black; Murray Pomerance
2. Costuming the Outsider in Tim Burton’s Cinema, or, Why a Corset is like a Codfish; Catherine Spooner
3. Danny Elfman’s Musical Fantasyland, Or Listening to a Snow Globe; Isabella van Elferen
4. Tim Burton’s “Filled” Spaces: Alice in Wonderland; J. P. Telotte
PART II: INFLUENCES AND CONTEXTS
5. How to See Things Differently: Tim Burton’s Reimaginings; Aaron Taylor
6. “He wants to be just like Vincent Price”: Influence and Intertext in the Gothic Films of Tim Burton; Stephen Carver
7. Tim Burton’s Trash Cinema Roots: Ed Wood and Mars Attacks!; Rob Latham
8. A Monstrous Childhood: Edward Gorey’s Influence on Tim Burton’s The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy; Eden Lee Lackner
9. It Came From Burbank: Exhibiting the Art of Tim Burton; Cheryl Hicks
10. “Tim is Very Personal”: Sketching a Portrait of Tim Burton’s Auteurist Fandom and its Origins; Matt Hills
PART III: THEMATICS
11. Tim Burton’s Popularization of Perversity: Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Sleepy Hollow, and Corpse Bride; Carol Siegel
12. “This is my art, and it is dangerous!”: Tim Burton’s Artist-Heroes; Dominic Lennard
13. Tim Burton and the Creative Trickster: A Case Study of Three Films; Katherine A. Fowkes