Tim Burton: A Child's Garden of Nightmares is a definitive guide to a successful cinematic career based on a love of American pop-gothic imagery. Anthologising articles and interviews written throughout Burton's career, the book charts his path from malcontent animator at Walt Disney Productions to director of feature films whose fantasy aesthetic couched natural sympathy for the alienated outsider (Batman, Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood). Comprehensive sections on each of his films are often prefaced with in-depth articles describing the pop-gothic subject matter.
