Conto de fadas em Tim Burton: materialização subjetiva na retomada de aspectos dos contos tradicionais

Abstract

The fairy tale, popular in origin and based on orality, migrated to different regions over different times, which led to successive adaptations according to different customs and cultures. In this way, these transformations distance the versions of tales known today from those told in ancient times. From an initial understanding of the elements that characterize fairy tales in their origin and in the present moment and the aspects that identify expressionist aesthetics, we seek to identify how Tim Burton recovers the characteristics of traditional fairy tales and what is the role of expressionist elements in this context. For this, an analysis will be made of the book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Storiesof his own, as well as the short films of the early career of the director: Vincent (1982) and Frankweenie (1984).