"This edited collection considers The Nightmare Before Christmas as a milestone in animation and film history, considering the different layer of meaning and history of the film from pre-production to the present day. Contributors highlight the core areas in which The Nightmare Before Christmas is most historically significant or uniquely insightful. This includes its journey from a quiet art-house release in 1993 distanced from a reluctant and fearful Walt Disney Pictures - to a prodigal son as it became one of Disney's most beloved family titles and developed into a cult phenomenon"--
"This edited collection considers The Nightmare Before Christmas as a milestone in animation and film history, considering the different layer of meaning and history of the film from pre-production to the present day. Contributors highlight the core areas in which The Nightmare Before Christmas is most historically significant or uniquely insightful. This includes its journey from a quiet art-house release in 1993 distanced from a reluctant and fearful Walt Disney Pictures - to a prodigal son as it became one of Disney's most beloved family titles and developed into a cult phenomenon"--
Filipa Antunes is Lecturer in the Humanities at the University of East Anglia, UK. Her main research interests are childhood and popular culture, especially when the two intersect; ratings and other forms of media regulation; boundaries between childhood and adulthood (and the culture of children and adults); and representations of childhood, parenthood, and family. Brittany Eldridge is a doctoral candidate at the University College London, UK. Her research interests include archetypal literary criticism, Jungian theory, hermeneutics, and phenomenology. Rebecca Williams is Senior Lecturer in Communication, Cultural and Media Studies at the University of South Wales UK. She is the author of Post-Object Fandom (2015) and editor of Torchwood Declassified (2013), both published by Bloomsbury Academic.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Contributors Introduction I: "What's This?": The Changing Frameworks and Meanings of The Nightmare Before Christmas 1. Whose Nightmare Before Christmas? Authorship and Authenticity in Contemporary Stop-Motion Animation Filipa Antunes (University of East Anglia, UK) 2. From Art House to Attraction: Haunted Mansion Holiday and Rebranding "Disney's" The Nightmare Before Christmas Nick Benson (SUNY Oneonta, USA) 3. Action Figures and the Contextual Reframing of The Nightmare Before Christmas Alec Plowman (University of East Anglia, UK) II: "Everybody Scream!": Interpreting The Nightmare Before Christmas 4. "How Horrible, How Jolly": The Nightmare Before Christmas in Holiday Media Sarah Whitney (Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College, USA) 5. Once Upon a Nightmare: The Nightmare Before Christmas and the Burtonesque Tale Brittany Eldridge (Pennsylvania State University, Brandywine, USA) 6. "I'm Gonna Do the Best I Can": Social Constructs and Adult Fandom A Luxx Mishou (Independent Scholar, USA) III: "Simply Meant to Be": The Continuing Impact of The Nightmare Before Christmas 7. Characters, Ani-embodiment, and Spatial Transmedia: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas in Theme Parks and on Stage Rebecca Williams (University of South Wales, UK) 8. Worm's Wort Optional: The Nightmare Before Christmas Fans' Mimetic Food Craft as Tactile Transmedia, Auteur Affirmation, and Transformative Translocation James Rendell (University of South Wales, UK) 9. Surreal Swirls, Goths and Ghouls: Identity, Fashion and Costumes Inspired by the World of Burton Nicolle Lamerichs (HU University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht, the Netherlands) Guide to Further Research Index
List of Contributors Introduction I: "What's This?": The Changing Frameworks and Meanings of The Nightmare Before Christmas 1. Whose Nightmare Before Christmas? Authorship and Authenticity in Contemporary Stop-Motion Animation Filipa Antunes (University of East Anglia, UK) 2. From Art House to Attraction: Haunted Mansion Holiday and Rebranding "Disney's" The Nightmare Before Christmas Nick Benson (SUNY Oneonta, USA) 3. Action Figures and the Contextual Reframing of The Nightmare Before Christmas Alec Plowman (University of East Anglia, UK) II: "Everybody Scream!": Interpreting The Nightmare Before Christmas 4. "How Horrible, How Jolly": The Nightmare Before Christmas in Holiday Media Sarah Whitney (Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College, USA) 5. Once Upon a Nightmare: The Nightmare Before Christmas and the Burtonesque Tale Brittany Eldridge (Pennsylvania State University, Brandywine, USA) 6. "I'm Gonna Do the Best I Can": Social Constructs and Adult Fandom A Luxx Mishou (Independent Scholar, USA) III: "Simply Meant to Be": The Continuing Impact of The Nightmare Before Christmas 7. Characters, Ani-embodiment, and Spatial Transmedia: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas in Theme Parks and on Stage Rebecca Williams (University of South Wales, UK) 8. Worm's Wort Optional: The Nightmare Before Christmas Fans' Mimetic Food Craft as Tactile Transmedia, Auteur Affirmation, and Transformative Translocation James Rendell (University of South Wales, UK) 9. Surreal Swirls, Goths and Ghouls: Identity, Fashion and Costumes Inspired by the World of Burton Nicolle Lamerichs (HU University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht, the Netherlands) Guide to Further Research Index
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