Chronology; Introduction: Burton the Pataphysicist; Chapter 1: Losing the Plot; Chapter 2: Burton the 2D Animator; Chapter 3: Burton the 3D Animator; Chapter 4: Burton and Batman; Chapter 5: Burton and Music; Chapter 6: The Other Burtons; Filmography; Bibliography
Alison McMahan is an award-winning screenwriter, author, and
filmmaker. She is the president of Homunculus Productions, LLC. Her
most recent film is Bare Hands and Wooden Limbs (2010) narrated by
Sam Waterston. She is currently in post-production on the feature
documentary The Eight Faces of Jane (2013) and the short
documentary Gluteus Maxximus (2012). She has over twenty years of
experience in film production, both in the U.S. and abroad,
producing, directing and writing industrials, training films, and
short fiction films. More information on her film work can be found
at www.HomunculusProds.com.
She is the author the award-winning book Alice Guy Blaché, Lost
Visionary of the Cinema (Continuum 2002), which was translated into
Spanish by Plots Ediciones and has been optioned by the PIC agency
to be made into a documentary film. She is also the author of The
Films of Tim Burton: Animating Live Action in Hollywood (Continuum
2005) as well as numerous newspaper and scholarly articles on film
and new media, www.AliceGuyBlache.com and www.FilmsofTimBurton.com.
Full list of publications can be found at
www.AlisonMcMahan.com.
She is currently working on a historical novel.
"McMahan's verbal lucidity is as impressive as the visual designs
of Burton's films, and much more accessible. From Burton's early
campy stop-action tribute to Vincent Price (Vincent) through his
blockbuster films like Batman, the author paints this director's
oeuvre as an intertextual, idiosyncratic, and fascinating set of
projects. However, what is unique about McMahan's approach is her
larger cultural and contextual concerns with "animating live action
in contemporary Hollywood," considerations that inform and direct
her lively analysis. She is as interested in narrative, marketing,
mythmaking, CGI and SFX, and the music of Danny Elfman as she is in
the individual films. She closes with an invitation to consider
other alternative postmodern directors such as Barry Sonnenfeld
(Men in Black). Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers; all
levels." - Choice, January 2006
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