CONTEXTS ESSAY STRUCTURE: OGR

CONTENT

• Proposed Essay Question

• Paragraph Essay Structure
• Supporting Illustration
• Bibliography
• Illustration Bibliography
PROPOSED ESSAY QUESTION

How is Hyperrealism and Jean Baudrillard’s theory on

Simulation presented in Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands
(1991)?
PARAGRAPH STRUCTURE
1. Introduction: Explanation about what the essay’s covers, what the key sources are(Devin Sandoz’s
simulation 2003, Eric Drown’s A Suburban Fairy Tale: A Simple Visual Analysis of Edward Scissorhands
2014, V Renee’s Breaking Down the Gothic Cinematic Style of Tim Burton 2016, Paul Hegarty’s Jean
Baudrildard live theory 2004 and Deirdre Crimmin’s Edward Scissorhands 2015) and what they cover.
2. Synopsis of Edward Scissorhands, talking about a brief overview of the film and what happens at the
end of the film(trying to link a part in to what I’m going to talk about in the essay).
3. Brief summary of what hyperrealism is and what Baudrildards theory is, and how it relates to Edward
Scissorhands.
4. Start to link into how the characters have shown Hyperrealism in the film
5. Talk about how hyperrealism is shown in the set
6. Show the contrast between the sets of the film, for example how the suburb town contrast the castle
on the hill and how they are different from each other.
7. Brief overview of Tim Burtons style fits into hyperrealism and the film.
8. Conclusion: Summarize how hyperrealism and Baudrillard theory is shown in the film.
SUPPORTING ILLUSTRATION

Fig 1.

Fig.2

Fig 4.. Fig. 5

Fig 3
ILLUSTRATION BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Fig.1: Baudrillard at http://www.famousphilosophers.org/jean-baudrillard/ [accessed 29/11/2018]

• Fig.2: Town and Castle at https://www.boredpanda.com/movie-locations-edward-scissorhands-suburb-
now-then-pictures-voodrew/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
[accessed 29/11/2018]
• Fig.3: Edward and dog at http://www.kulturelmasi.com/johnny-deppin-unutulmaz-on-iki-karakteri-ve-
performansi/edward-scissorhands/ [accessed 29/11/2018]
• Fig.4: https://carboncostume.com/kim-from-edward-scissorhands/
• Fig.5: https://www.scmp.com/sites/default/files/2016/11/04/tim_burton_in_hk.jpg
BIBLIOGRAPHY

• M.Conterio(2015) https://scene360.com/art/75828/tim-burton-film-analysis/ [accessed 29/11/2018]

• V.Renee (2016), 'Burtonesque': Breaking Down the Gothic Cinematic Style of Tim Burton at
https://nofilmschool.com/2016/09/burtonesque-breaking-down-gothic-cinematic-style-tim-burton [accessed
29/11/2018]
• E.Drown(2014), A Suburban Fairy Tale: A Simple Visual Analysis of Edward Scissorhands at
https://medium.com/110-seconds-from-now/a-suburban-fairy-tale-a-simple-visual-analysis-of-edward-
scissorhands-3af31df4529e [accessed 29/11/2018]
• D.Sandoz(2003), simulation / simulacrum (1) at
https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/keywords/simulation-simulacrum/ [accessed 29/11/2018]
• Hegarty. Paul, (2004), Jean Baudrillard live theory, New York, British library cataloguing-in-publication data
• D.Crimmin(2015), Edward Scissorhands at http://www.brattleblog.brattlefilm.org/2015/12/10/edward-
scissorhands-2-3536/ [accessed at 29/11/2018]