Episode 32 - Corpse Bride (Tim Burton, 2005) (with Emily Mantell)
Corpse Bride (Tim Burton, 2005).
The Fantasy/Animation podcast takes listeners on a journey through the intersection between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. Available via Apple Podcasts, Spotify and many of your favourite podcast hosting platforms!
Halloween is well and truly upon us for Episode 32, with Chris and Alex getting to grips with spooky stop-motion feature Corpse Bride (Tim Burton, 2005). Joining them is animator Emily Mantell, Storyboard Staff Assistant on the film and currently Head of Animation at University of Wolverhampton. Expect proceedings to take a turn for the ghoulish - if not become a little ‘topsy turvy’ - as they discuss the art and labour of storyboarding within animated feature-film production; vocal performances and animating to the voicetrack; the role of ambivalent feminine unruliness embodied in the eponymous corpse bride; themes of outsiderdom and the grotesque; and the broader creative messiness of stop-motion.
Suggested Readings
Pallant, Chris and Steven Price. 2015. Storyboarding: A Critical History. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Rowe, Kathleen. 1995. The Unruly Woman: Gender and Genres of Laughter. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Rowe, Kathleen. 2011. Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers: Redefining Feminism on Screen, Austin: University of Texas Press.
Wells, Paul. 2011. “Boards, beats, binaries and bricolage : approaches to the animation script.” In Analysing the Screenplay, ed. Jill Nelmes, 89-105. London: Routledge.
Woods, Paul A. 2007. Tim Burton: A Child's Garden of Nightmares, London: Plexus Publishing.