“I don’t want him in my heart. I want him here with me”: On Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie (2012)

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Autor(a) principal: Duarte, José
Data de Publicação: 2020
Outros Autores: Martins, Ana Rita
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/50065
Resumo: Frankenweenie (2012) is amongst the most personal films directed by Tim Burton because it reflects the director’s visual aesthetics and thematic obsessions, while also being a composite of different bodies: monstrous, anomalous, literary and cinematic. In this sense, the film serves as a container for Burton’s art and creative view. Basing our analysis on research developed by Salisbury (2000) and Weinstock (2013), this study looks at ideas of monstrosity (Mittman, 2016) and the monstrous bodies portrayed in the film, which are connected with the other “bodies” the director creates and reanimates. Victor and Sparky, but also the film itself, are constructions deriving from literature and cinema and, consequently, can be viewed as bodies produced from a palimpsest of ideas and concepts. Thus, the purpose of this essay is to look into the different bodies explored in the film, while trying to understand how the director has contributed to the ongoing discussion of what it means to be monstrous and, therefore, what it means to be human.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv “I don’t want him in my heart. I want him here with me”: On Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie (2012)
title “I don’t want him in my heart. I want him here with me”: On Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie (2012)
spellingShingle “I don’t want him in my heart. I want him here with me”: On Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie (2012)
Duarte, José
Cinema
Burton, Tim. Frankenweenie
Monstruosidade
title_short “I don’t want him in my heart. I want him here with me”: On Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie (2012)
title_full “I don’t want him in my heart. I want him here with me”: On Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie (2012)
title_fullStr “I don’t want him in my heart. I want him here with me”: On Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie (2012)
title_full_unstemmed “I don’t want him in my heart. I want him here with me”: On Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie (2012)
title_sort “I don’t want him in my heart. I want him here with me”: On Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie (2012)
author Duarte, José
author_facet Duarte, José
Martins, Ana Rita
author_role author
author2 Martins, Ana Rita
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Duarte, José
Martins, Ana Rita
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Cinema
Burton, Tim. Frankenweenie
Monstruosidade
topic Cinema
Burton, Tim. Frankenweenie
Monstruosidade
description Frankenweenie (2012) is amongst the most personal films directed by Tim Burton because it reflects the director’s visual aesthetics and thematic obsessions, while also being a composite of different bodies: monstrous, anomalous, literary and cinematic. In this sense, the film serves as a container for Burton’s art and creative view. Basing our analysis on research developed by Salisbury (2000) and Weinstock (2013), this study looks at ideas of monstrosity (Mittman, 2016) and the monstrous bodies portrayed in the film, which are connected with the other “bodies” the director creates and reanimates. Victor and Sparky, but also the film itself, are constructions deriving from literature and cinema and, consequently, can be viewed as bodies produced from a palimpsest of ideas and concepts. Thus, the purpose of this essay is to look into the different bodies explored in the film, while trying to understand how the director has contributed to the ongoing discussion of what it means to be monstrous and, therefore, what it means to be human.
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