Kim Wilkins, University of Sydney, Australia Colleen Kennedy-Karpat, Bilkent University, Turkey C. Ryan Knight, Randolph County Community College, USA Joshua Gooch, D'Youville College, USA Steven Rybin, Georgia Gwinnett College, USA Jennifer O'Meara, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland James MacDowell, University of Warwick, UK Jen Hedler Phillis, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Rachel Joseph, Trinity University, USA Laura Shackelford, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Nicole Richter, Wright State University, USA Jason Davids Scott, Stephen F. Austin State University, USA Lara Hrycaj, Wayne State University, USA

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