Gilles Menegaldo (ed.)., Tim Burton: A Cinema of Transformations

What makes a Burton film Burtonian? This collection of articles explores the postmodern universe created by a filmmaker who mixes genres, aesthetics and cultural references in each of his productions. Frankenstein’s creature soon emerges as a central figure, as the literal patching up and stitching of bodies or costumes that mirrors what Melanie Boissonneau aptly calls Burton’s “Frankenstein method” (318), which consists in appropriating, assembling, and thus re-inventing existing material. B...