A critical companion to Julie Taymor / edited by Matthew Hodge, Adam Barkman, Antonio Sanna.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hodge, Matthew, 1985- editor.

Barkman, Adam, 1979- editor.

Sanna, Antonio, 1978- editor.

Series:

Critical companions to contemporary directors

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taymor, Julie, 1952---Criticism and interpretation.

Taymor, Julie.

Women motion picture producers and directors--United States.

Women motion picture producers and directors.

Motion pictures--United States--History.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

viii, 265 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2024]

Summary:

"Contributors to this collection examine issues of creativity, gender, sexuality, and adaptation by focusing on themes from Julie Taymor's oeuvre including martyrdom, musicality, fidelity, postmodern representations, feminism and queerness, identity, desire, trauma, revenge, hybridity, and obscenity"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Julie Taymor's Frida : a two-way mirror on female creativity / Anna Baccanti

"We can work it out' : reassessing musicality, fidelity and excess in Across the universe / Leanne Weston

From historical relevance to postmodern revisionism : the case of Julie Taymor's Titus / Andrew Grossman

Across the universe : how political mood shapes viewers' choices and box office success / Shawn Williams

Disruptive desires and creative transgressions in Julie Taymor's Across the universe / Sony Jalarajan Raj and Adith K. Suresh

Framing a feminist : vehicles, bodies and clothing as biography in The Glorias / Dominique Angela M. Juntado

Frida : creativity, trauma and the woman artist / Gabrielle Stecher

Why feminism? An examination of the philosophy of gender in The Glorias / Samuel Vandeputte and Adam Barkman

Wanton boys : queering childhood and youth in Julie Taymor's Titus / Jeff Turner

Fool's fire, Titus, The Tempest : revenge in the films of Julie Taymor / Antonio Sanna

From Titus to Tempest : Taymor's divergent lenses on Shakespeare / Claire Kimball

Hybridity and self-reflexivity in Julie Taymor's film of A midsummer night's dream / Elizabeth Klett

Compulsive symbolizations : scenes of power, figuration and ob/scenity in Titus / Louis Breitsohl.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Critical companion to Julie Taymor

ISBN:

9781666936681

1666936685

OCLC:

1420353691