Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Wes Anderson as Auteur—a History
2. Wes Anderson: His Position in American Cinema and Culture
3. Gender, Youth, and the Explorartion of Masculinity in Bottle
Rocket
4. “Sic Transit Gloria”: Transgressing the Boundaries of
Adolescence in Rushmore
5. The Interplay of Narrative Text, Language, and Film: Literary
Influence and Intertextuality in The Royal Tenenbaums
6. Opposition and Resolution: The Dissonance of Celebrity in The
Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
7. Fragmentary Narratives/Incomplete Identities in The Darjeeling
Limited
8. Adaptation and Homage: The World of Roald Dahl and Fantastic Mr.
Fox
9. Reconstitution of the “Family” and Construction of Normalized
Gender in Moonrise Kingdom
10. Literary Influence and Memory: Stefan Zweig and The Grand
Budapest Hotel
11. Wes Anderson’s Short Films and Commercial Work
Conclusion: Memory and Narrative in the Works of Wes Anderson
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
Whitney Crothers Dilley is professor of English at Shih Hsin University in Taipei, Taiwan, and has published five books on film and literature, including The Cinema of Ang Lee: The Other Side of the Screen (2007).
Here one finds many Andersons: Anderson the miniaturist, Anderson
the skilled director of advertisements, and most impressive,
Anderson the autodidactic dreamer.
*Choice*
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