The Films of Wes Anderson

Introduction: The Wonderful Worlds of Wes Anderson; Peter C. Kunze PART I 1. The Short Films of Wes Anderson; Nicole Richter 2. Cast of Characters: Wes Anderson and Pure Cinematic Characterization; Kim Wilkins 3. The Jellyfish and the Moonlight: Imagining the Family in Wes Anderson's Films; Steven Rybin 4. 'Max Fischer Presents': Wes Anderson and the Theatricality of Mourning; Rachel Joseph 5. 'Who's to Say?': The Role of Pets in Wes Anderson's Films; C. Ryan Knight 6. 'American Empirical' Time and Space: The (In)Visibility of Popular Culture in the Films of Wes Anderson; Jason Davids Scott PART II 7. From the Mixed-Up Films of Mr. Wesley W. Anderson: Children's Literature as Intertexts; Peter C. Kunze 8. A Shared Approach to Familial Dysfunction and Sound Design: Wes Anderson's Influence on the Films of Noah Baumbach; Jennifer O'Meara 9. Bill Murray and Wes Anderson, or the Curmudgeon as Muse; Colleen Kennedy-Karpat 10. Life on Mars or Life on the Sea: Seu Jorge, David Bowie, and the Musical World in Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou; Lara Hrycaj PART III 11. The Andersonian, the Quirky, and 'Innocence'; James MacDowell 12. 'I Always Wanted to be a Tenenbaum': Class Mobility as Neoliberal Fantasy in Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums; Jen Hedler Phillis 13. Objects / Desire / Oedipus: Wes Anderson as Late Capitalist Auteur; Joshua Gooch 14. Systems Thinking in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Moonrise Kingdom; Laura Shackelford