[ecrea] Call for Essays for Edited Collection on the Films of Tim Burton

Call for Essays for Edited Collection on the Films of Tim Burton
Gothic, Ghastly, Corporeal and Creaturely: Tim Burton's Curious Bodies

Film director Tim Burton has acquired an international reputation and 
critical acclaim for fantasy horror films that variously encompass 
alternative worlds inhabited by ghosts, animated corpses, grotesque and 
horrible bodies, or otherwise, ‘different’ beings. So too do creaturely 
apparitions feature regularly in his productions. While his work often 
centres on animated characters, he collaborates with a number of 
specific star personae such as Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, 
Christopher Lee, Winona Ryder, Vincent Price, Christopher Walken, Danny 
de Vito, Michael Keaton, and Jack Nicholson. Burton also frequently uses 
composer, Danny Elfman, as well as certain crew members and technical 
staff to work on his films. Following on from a recent successful 
conference, the organisers now seek to draw together scholarship on the 
theme of ‘bodies’ in Burton’s films and invite proposals accordingly. As 
we already have a number of excellent proposals/essays in place, we are 
currently looking for contributions that focus on:

	Collaborative bodies – stars, actors, composers, and we particularly 
welcome proposals from crew members and technical staff involved in 
Burton’s films to complement those already received 	Gothic bodies
	Creaturely bodies

Please send proposals of up to 500 words along with a 100 word bio by 
April 30th 2018 to the editors: Fran Pheasant-Kelly at 
(f.e.pheasant-kelly /at/ wlv.ac.uk) and Stella Hockenhull at (s.hockenhull /at/ wlv.ac.uk)

We have a major British publisher interested in this collection, which 
we are aiming to publish in good time for REF2021

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