Tim Burton
3 titles · american genre
Gothic sympathy for the misshapen. Burton builds hand-crafted worlds of spirals, stripes and bare trees, and sides consistently with the outsider against the tidy suburb.
Signature
- German-expressionist silhouettes and skewed architecture.
- Monochrome-with-accent palettes.
- Suburban conformity as antagonist.
- Stop-motion and practical craft preferred to realism.
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