Introduction: Movies and the Art of Humanity / Johnson Cheu -- Outsider Characters and Other Oddities: "Why Spend Your Life Making Someone Else's Dreams?". Ed Wood Comes Out and Makes His Own Dreams in a Fluffy Pink Angora Sweater / Gael Sweeney -- An Odd Quest Continued: The Heroes of Tim Burton / Rachel S. McCoppin -- Mixed Assortment: The Typical and Atypical Body in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory / Elizabeth Leigh Scherman -- Corporeal Mediation and Visibility in Sleepy Hollow / Lori Parks -- Capitalism and Its Discontents: Gender, Property and Nature in Batman Returns, Sleepy Hollow and Corpse Bride / Susan M. Bernardo -- The Nature of Adaptations Becoming the Stories: Indefinite Play in Big Fish / Lisa K. Perdigao -- Mixing Man and Monkey in Planet of the Apes / Kimiko Akita and Rick Kenney -- "A Stranger in a Sea of Familiar Faces": Self-Referentiality, Bodily Hauntings and Materializing Identity in Dark Shadows / Lance Norman -- "Attend the Tale": Burton's Transformation of Sweeney Todd from Stage Epic to Screen Intimacy / Brian D. Holcomb -- Navigating the Risks of Re-Adaptation: Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory After Dahl and Stuart / Pamela Krayenbuhl -- The Kids Aren't Alright: Childhood Liminality and the Monstrous-Cute in Burton's Roald Dahl Adaptations / Sarah Downes -- Technology, Artistry and Stardom Converging Worlds: Neo-Victorianism in the Stop-Motion Films / Kara M. Manning -- The Use of German Expressionism and American Exceptionalism / Peter C. Kunze -- "I'm Not Finished": Gender Transgression and Star Persona in Edward Scissorhands / Deborah Mellamphy.