The Films of Wes Anderson

1. Introduction
Peter C. Kunze

2. The Short Films of Wes Anderson
Nicole Richter

3. Cast of Characters: Wes Anderson and Pure Cinematic Characterization
Kim Wilkins

4. The Jellyfish and the Moonlight: Imagining the Family in Wes Anderson’s Films
Steven Rybin

5. “Max Fischer Presents”: Wes Anderson and the Theatricality of Mourning
Rachel Joseph

6. “Who’s to Say?”: The Role of Pets in Wes Anderson’s Films
C. Ryan Knight

7. “American Empirical” Time and Space: The (In) Visibility of Popular Culture in the Films of Wes Anderson
Jason Davids Scott

8. From the Mixed-Up Films of Mr. Wesley W. Anderson: Children’s Literature as Intertexts
Peter C. Kunze

9. A Shared Approach to Familial Dysfunction and Sound Design: Wes Anderson’s Influence on the Films of Noah Baumbach
Jennifer O’Meara

10. Bill Murray and Wes Anderson, or the Curmudgeon as Muse
Colleen Kennedy-Karpat

11. 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

12. The Andersonian, the Quirky, and “Innocence”
James MacDowell

13. “I Always Wanted to Be a Tenenbaum”: Class Mobility as Neoliberal Fantasy in Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums
Jen Hedler Phillis

14. Objects/Desire/Oedipus: Wes Anderson as Late-Capitalist Auteur
Joshua Gooch

15. Systems Thinking in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Moonrise Kingdom
Laura Shackelford

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Directing, Film and Television Studies, Arts, Film History