>Tim Burton’s Landscapes of the Mind

Tim Burton’s Landscapes of the Mind

Cairin Bohn
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2007
BA

Subject: Film and Architecture
Country: America and Germany
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation looks at the films directed by Tim Burton in the light of Romanticism, the Gothic Revival and German Expressionist art and film, and the author argues that these have rarely been used as critical contexts for his work. The first chapter deals with Burton’s life experience and how it shapes his art, and his engagement with ideologies which embody the idea of the soul being expressed through art. In the second chapter, the key influence of Romanticism is explored with reference to Burton’s conception of landscape. The third chapter deals with the the Gothic Revival and its relationship with the Romantic movement, and how the romantic movement was crucial to the dissemination of the Gothic aesthetic into contemporary culture. The final chapter discusses the influence of German Expressionist art and cinema on Burton. Dissertation accompanied by DVD.

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Tim Burton’s Landscapes of the Mind