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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Danny Elfman’s Musical Fantasyland, or, Listening to a Snow Globe
Author : Isabella van Elferen
Published in: The Works of Tim Burton
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
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Danny Elfman has composed scores for no less than 14 of Tim Burton’s films. Elfman’s music is such an indispensable part of the universes Burton creates that the two artists are often mentioned in the same sentence. So closely do their imaginations tie in together that it seems Burton’s visuals synesthetically conjure up Elfman’s music—and vice versa. This chapter investigates the interrelations of sound and music in Burton and Elfman’s shared projects, arguing that their collaborations have produced audiovisual “snow globes,” each film a wondrous looking glass through which the audience can never fully pass.