Abstract
2012 was a good year for Tim Burton. Dark Shadows and Frankenweenie, both directed by Burton (the latter a greatly expanded stop-motion remake of his 1984 short) were released, as was Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, produced by Burton and directed by Timur Bekmambetov from the novel by Seth Grahame-Smith. While Abraham Lincoln reflects current trends in popular horror—a crowded, image-consuming, multimedia marketplace characterized by kinetic violence and genre hybridization—Dark Shadows and Frankenweenie are pure Burton: stylized narratives that are at once traditional and highly idiosyncratic.
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Carver, S. (2013). “He wants to be just like Vincent Price”: Influence and Intertext in the Gothic Films of Tim Burton. In: Weinstock, J.A. (eds) The Works of Tim Burton. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137370839_7
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