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Tim Burton, 2008.
A biography and analysis of the directorial style of film maker Tim Burton.
5,414 words (approx. 21.7 pages), 17 sources, APA, $ 133.95
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This paper evaluates the films created by Burton in an effort to uncover what distinguishes his directorial style from mainstream Hollywood filmmaking, why he acquired this predilection and hang on to such artistic viewpoint, and how his films' inordinate preoccupation with the weird and the morbid hit if off with both the critics and the box-office.
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Introduction
Literature Review
Early Years
Filmography
Auteur
Trademarks
Mise En Scene
Conclusion
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"Burton began drawing at an early age, but it wasn't until he has spent some time at California Institute of the Arts that he was given an opportunity that would change his life forever. Disney, after seeing Burton's artwork, hired him immediately. Amazingly, they didn't even have a job that specifically fit what he could do. He was hired on the basis that if Disney didn't hire him, someone else would. Long and tedious hours were burned away as Burton worked continuously on creating ideas for Disney. What he came up with wasn't exactly what Disney had hoped for. He developed two short films, Vincent (1982) and Frankenweenie (1984). The first film was a "claymation" (a film animation whose characters are sculpted from clay) tribute to his idol Vincent Price and, although not the most publicized film from the Disney Studios, it was certainly the most unusual because of the combination of bizarre characters and the constantly shifting expressionist backgrounds1. "
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, 2002.
An analysis of 1999 Tim Burton film, "Sleepy Hollow".
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This three-page undergraduate paper offers a thematic analysis of the 1999 Tim Burton film, Sleepy Hollow. The author discusses what the director wanted to impress upon his audience, and what elements made the film unique and memorable.
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The Fantasies of Sleepy Hollow, 2003.
The following essay discusses the daydream of Ichabod Crane in Tim Burton's film, "Sleepy Hollow".
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 23.95
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This essay draws on the similarities and comparisons between Washington Irving?s "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and Tim Burton?s film, "Sleepy Hollow" with specific reference to the daydream scenes.
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? Yet this daydream has no few of the aspects of a nightmare as well. In the real world, the worst Ichabod will ever endure is a fall from his faithful, and borrowed, steed Gunpowder. In the daydream film, he shall be skewered with a ghostly sword, beaten, choked, and otherwise bodily assaulted. The horsemen will not be a possible figment, a traveler who merely keeps pace and tosses pumpkins; to the contrary, he shall kill any number of people.?
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The Corpse Bride, 2007.
This paper discusses the film "The Corpse Bride" directed by Tim Burton.
872 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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In this article, the writer looks at the film "The Corpse Bride" and examines its popularity. The writer maintains that the popularity of this film is really quite amazing if you look at the fact that it seems to have a highly specialized, niche target audience, some of which are not known to be the most mainstream of audiences. The writer notes that ultimately the timing of 'The Corpse Bride' allowed what might have been a small, quiet film to blossom into an impressive box office draw. Further the writer points out that the partnerships that Tim Burton, Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter have forged together through multiple films have been able to provide a fascinating and varied body of work that leaves the audience anxiously awaiting the next move for these now A-list actors and director.
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"The story of The Corpse Bride is a stop-frame animation film by Tim Burton that is loosely based on a Russian-Jewish folklore from the 19th century. In the story, a reluctant groom, Victor Van Dort, is being forced to marry in an arrangement between his family and the family of Victoria Everglot, his betrothed. Initially, neither are very happy with the arrangement, but after they meet for the first time they fall in love and are relatively eager for the wedding to take place. Because of his surprise affection for Victoria, Victor is nervous and proves to be a disaster at the rehearsal where he makes a mess of his wedding vows and sets his future mother in law on fire. Pastor Galswells is appalled by Victor's incompetence and declares that the wedding will not take place until Victor can successfully repeat his vows and can compose himself during the ceremony."
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"Frankenstein" and "Edward Scissorhands", 2005.
An analysis of storytelling techniques in the novel "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley and the movie "Edward Scissorhands" by Tim Burton.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper discusses storytelling techniques employed in Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein" and Tim Burton's movie, "Edward Scissorhands". The paper discusses the basic plots of each story and then goes on to describe the similarities between the two tales, in describing the cruelty of the society in which the characters live that lead them to feel ostracized.
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"Storytelling Techniques in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands Few stories are capable of demonstrating alienation with the same power as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The movie Edward Scissorhands is essentially a modern Frankenstein tale. Like Frankenstein's creation, Edward is an artificial construct who faces alienation from society. In both these stories, the creation faces cruelty from that society, eventually becoming what they are accused of being, and, ultimately being forced to live out their lives alone. Shelley's novel and Burton's film are similar in several areas. First, the characters' artificial beginnings lead to their inability to fit into the society that surrounds them. Second, through the ostracism they face, both the monster and Edward are forced into the roles that society expects of them. Third, and finally, both of these creatures voluntarily remove themselves from human society, rather than continue to face the world in which they are not welcome to participate."
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C. Emory Burton's "The Poverty Debate", 2005.
This paper reviews the first two chapters of C. Emory Burton's "The Poverty Debate: Politics and the Poor in America", which provides a coherent analysis of this problem.
830 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 0 sources, $ 29.95
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This paper explains that C. Emory Burton in "The Poverty Debate: Politics and the Poor in America" defines poverty as the point at which the individual or family unit is no longer able to sufficiently provide itself with the essentials of life. The author points out that Burton states (1) that the vast majority of the poor do not enjoy most of the benefits of "in kind" distributions, (2) that poverty should be measured in relation to the U.S. standard of living and (3) that the effects of poverty are insidious and far reaching. The paper relates that Burton's arguments are convincing although a bit too left-leaning and a number of his claims seem questionable.
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"In chapter two, Burton addresses the theory of a "culture of poverty" in which those who are classified as poor are actually, in large part, to blame for their own circumstances. What the theory proposes is that those in poverty have characteristics which perpetuate and insure their condition. Be it a low interest in education, little work ethic, no desire to improve themselves, unwillingness to take responsibility, or the inability to plan ahead or look toward the future, these individuals have personal flaws which keep them in a state of poverty."
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Richard Burton in Arabia, 2002.
A discussion of the role of disguise in Richard Burton?s ?Personal Narrative of A Pilgrimage to al-Medina and Meccah?.
2,110 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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This paper examines how a study of the significance of Richard Burton?s disguise in his "Personal Narrative of A Pilgrimage to al-Medina and Meccah" has implications for both an assessment of his success in his examination of the people he encounters and of his ability to use this disguise as a means of learning by complete immersion. It looks at how his eagerness to perfect this ?cultural transvestism? which he had employed previously in his travels was partly fuelled by his desire to examine and map for the Western reader. It also discusses how the objectivity which Burton?s disguise affords him is undermined by his fundamental colonial superiority.
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"Burton?s disguise affords him an omnipotence which lends itself to an reaffirmation of his assumed Western superiority over the natives. Firstly, he presupposes, with no moral reservations, a right to imitate the Arabs, to deceive them in order to infiltrate their most revered pilgrimage, and to accept their help and friendship. Secondly, he takes advantage of his ingrained superiority in the very act of ?going native? and receiving wisdom from his experience with the Arabs. An Arab would never be able to enjoy the same kind of teaching from a European, learning through living on a European level. Indeed, the Arab could not ?go civilised? in direct opposition to the European ?going native.? Burton is able to gain a measure of knowledge of the Arabs which they would not be able to match in terms of knowledge of the Europeans."
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Dr. Tim Berners-Lee, 2007.
This paper discusses Dr. Tim Berners-Lee, the primary architect of the World Wide Web.
1,346 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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The paper relates that Tim Berners-Lee is credited with inventing the interfacing and programming standards that have together revolutionized the World Wide Web. The paper looks at Tim Berners-Lee's education, work experiences and many awards. The paper discusses how he worked to make the web browser, server, client and protocols free for everyone to use. The paper describes him as one of the most celebrated and awarded scientists of this age.
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"In conjunction with his colleagues at CERN, Europe's foremost scientific research center, Tim Berners-Lee developed and first introduced a text-based Web browser in 1991, choosing to make the browser public-domain technology as rapidly as possible despite many lucrative offers to sell his patents. He was invited in 1994 to join MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science as Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, a leadership role he continues in today. He is one of the most celebrated and awarded scientists of this age, and is most respected for his passionate pursuit of keeping Web technologies royalty-free, so as to keep the Internet a public resource for anyone who wants to access and use it."
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Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried", 2006.
An analysis of Tim O'Brien's short story about soldiers in the Vietnam War, "The Things They Carried".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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This paper looks closely at the short story by Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried". The work selects as its thesis the items which were carried, and what they symbolize. The paper also comments upon what it means to not have items of value or to burn and give up the burdens which were first brought to war. It concludes that these items saved the soldiers and bring them humanity.
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"Tim O'Brien's powerful words in the short story "The Things They Carried", the title and first chapter in his collection of work concerning soldiers during the Vietnam War, connect to readers as they remind us of burdens being carried--physical, emotional and spiritual. As the soldiers gain personality via their possessions--both those they carry as well as those they leave behind--we come to envision these men as the 'everyman,' those who go off to war and symbolize a country. As the images of these burdens gain a solid presence in the story, they represent the lives and hopes of each soldier, even as they are cast away by the principle character in the tale, Lieutenant Jimmy Cross. Near the first lines of the story, O'Brien introduces the readers to the theme of the 'carried,' or burdens. Each soldier is made unique by..."
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Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried", 2008.
This paper discusses Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" about the reality of combat in Vietnam.
825 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 29.95
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This paper explains that, in his National Book Award winning novel "The Things They Carried", Vietnam veteran Tim O'Brien conveyed the reality of the war by telling his readers in plainspoken language what it feels like to be afraid, to kill and to see friends die in a useless war ten-thousand miles away from home. The author points outs that O'Brien's literary approach of conveying the realism of violent death in combat through emotion is very effective. The paper relates that this style has far more power and meaning than simply describing battles. The author underscores that O'Brien's use of fear, the trauma killing inflicts and the grief soldiers feel for lost comrades are the three primary reasons why this book has been acclaimed as one of the most realistic novels about the Vietnam War ever written.
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"This passage conveys much more about the pervasive weight of fear and the awful finality of death than many war novelists have communicated in entire chapters, or even in entire novels. O'Brien (1999) describes his friend's sudden death on a warm, sunny April morning with compassionate finality and an authoritative essence that is eloquent in its very simplicity. "He was dead weight," O'Brien writes of Ted Lavender, a scared young soldier gone from this world in the twinkling of an eye."
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Tim Winton's "Dirt Music", 2005.
Examines the relationships in the novel, "Dirt Music," by Tim Winton.
1,329 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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An oddly intriguing tale of loss and recovery, Tim Winton's "Dirt Music" focuses on an unlikely triangle among a myriad of colorful characters set against the hauntingly beautiful milieu of Western Australia. This paper shows how Winton smoothly weaves a rough assemblage of highly individual characters together, united and by the common factor of keen and painful grief. Many of the relationships formed between the major characters are primarily aimed at dealing with the loss of someone or something close to them. The paper shows that, despite the differing approaches to their problems, each of Winton's characters' lives revolves around their loss and their ways of coping.
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"The loss of his leg in an accident involving a "dickhead in his Range Rover" has left a permanent stain on Rusty's character; he is bitter with self-pity and mingles his ideas of revenge with frequent morphine injections. A constant "contented" state, as Lu politely puts it, is Rusty's alternative to Bess's jarring poetic outbursts and a far less dignified approach to loss (or impending loss as is Bess's case) than either Beaver or Jim and inspire little empathy from the reader. Winton's intention it appears is to contrast the different reactions to the solitude of death, placing the 'good' characters in a more pleasing light and creating a better understanding of their actions as well as creating a string of memorable characters with which he peppers Lu's journey Coronation Gulf."
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Tim O?Brien, 2006.
A review of Tim O'Brien's works on Vietnam.
2,501 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 76.95
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This paper mainly gives a personal perspective of Tim O'Brien, the author, focusing on his experiences in Vietnam. It discusses the shift in the tone of war writing, its views on combat and the outlook on war. It cites many of O'Brien's works to qualify this point. The paper manages to highlight that war literature is not to view the experiences of war only in historical and personal terms, but also to reflect the entire tension that was going on between the individual and the historical situation.
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"Tim O'Brien was not very happy that American conscience had been able to digest the events of Vietnam very well and the country had got back to a situation of being "normal". On his side, he had gone to the extent of saying that he wished that the country was a little more troubled. When the society in the country is normal, it means that the history has been removed from the public conscience, and also changed human nature where these events will no longer raise public protests. In the stories of war, there are the dreams and lives of individuals, fighting as soldiers, and are not only a set of data. This is important to note. Since the point is only to talk about the event without highlighting the results, is it not more difficult to raise public interest?"
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Tim O?Brien, 2004.
A review of the literary works written by Tim O?Brien.
1,550 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper begins with a brief history of Tim O'Brien's life and background before he fought in the war in Vietnam. The writer then looks at the process that led O'Brien to become a writer from his time in Vietnam to his university years at Harvard. The paper looks at the recurring themes evident not only in ?If I Die in a Combat Zone?, but his other novels as well.
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"Fear and fears is also one of the center points of the novel. Obviously, in wars and in the Vietnam War in particular, the utmost fear is the fear of dying. However, surprisingly or not, the fear of dying seems to be occasionally surpassed by other fears. One of them is the fear of getting lost at night. As O?Brien puts it, this fear refers to the terrible sensation of ?of becoming detached from the others, of spending the night alone in that frightening and haunted countryside? . This description of the fear of getting lost draws an interesting angle on what collectivity is in a war. Practically, you begin to refuse your existence as an individual and begin to exist as a group, because, as the quote underlines, it is the fact of being separated from the others that is most traumatizing in getting lost."
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Tim Miller and the Highways Performance Space, 2004.
An analysis of the work of Tim Miller and the Highways Performance Space in presenting the plight of homosexuals.
1,377 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper examines how, in 1989, the Highways Performance Space was created in Santa Monica in the hope of presenting a more multicultural perspective of the arts to the people of Southern California. It shows how, rather than focusing on one particular culture, the center was made to present performances that spanned the spectrum of race and gender, ethnicity and lifestyle. It looks at how one of its founders, Tim Miller, already a well-renowned performance artist, focused on the trials of America?s gays and lesbians. It also discusses how both Miller and Highways attempted to create a relationship with the world in order to take an uncertain future and mold it into something better than the present in order to end prejudice.
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"Miller?s pieces often explain the plights of homosexuals through his own personal experiences. For example, in his most recent work, ?Glory Box,? he discusses how he and his lover may have to move to a different country as his partner is not a full citizen and they cannot marry in order to allow him to stay (Miller, Body Blows, 210-241). Thus his works touch on a more personal side, while also being able to be somewhat universal as all gay couples have to deal with this type of discrimination in one way or another. This can easily be connected to the creation of Highways, in which his more personal gay/lesbian stance is able to be magnified to encompass all types of minorities."
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Tim Berners-Lee, 2002.
An overview of the contribution of Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, to the business world.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper examines the impact of Tim Berners-Lee upon modern business. His invention, the World Wide Web, has contributed directly to the massive growth of the world economy and to the tectonic shift in the manner by which companies and individuals conduct business. It concludes that the future of the web is that it will remain as significant to business and society as any of the other great inventions such as the internal combustion engine and the telephone.
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