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Description: A critical analysis of the work of Tim Burton, focus on animation and Hollywood films, written by Alison McMahan.
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Most Tim Burton films are huge box-office successes, and several are already classics. Burton has broad appeal as well as a devoted fan following. His mysterious and eccentric public persona attracts much press attention, while the films themselves have been overlooked. TIM BURTON, FILMMAKER redresses this imbalance through a close analysis of Burton's key films and their industrial context. Such an analysis is necessary to identify the distinctive quality of Burton as a filmmaker, including his ability to
Burton's place in film history is on a continuum that starts with the stop-animation films of Georges Méliès. The films of the surrealists, the avant-garde of the twenties, the experimentalists of the sixties, happenings, installation art, and computer games, are a more appropriate context from which to approach Burton's oeuvre than trying to place them in the context of the Hollywood mainstream.
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