The Nightmare Before Christmas (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Antunes, Filipa; Williams, Rebecca; Eldridge, Brittany

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection considers The Nightmare Before Christmas as a milestone in animation and film history, considering the different layers of meaning and history of the film from pre-production to the present day.

The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick, 1993) has become a key point of reference in negotiations of genre and the boundaries between mainstream and cult cultures, both on screen and in the spaces of fandom, and in original and retrospective reception contexts where it often becomes tangled with nostalgia. Contributors to this edited collection consider the film as a cultural object with significant impact on animation, representations of family and horror, and fandom and subcultures. Covering topics including representations of fairy tales, Christmas media, cultural appropriation, family horror, merchandise, theme parks, and food, this work explores the film's ongoing cultural impact.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798765113646
• Artikelnr.: 72811801

Autorenporträt

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 (Bee) Eldridge is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Pennsylvania State University, York, USA. They hold a PhD from University College London, UK. Bee is the Head of Communication for the Disney, Culture and Society Research Network (DisNet) and their Blog Editor. 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