A Critical Companion to Julie Taymor -

A Critical Companion to Julie Taymor

Buch | Hardcover
274 Seiten
2023
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-3668-1 (ISBN)
99,95 inkl. MwSt
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.
A Critical Companion to Julie Taymor is the most updated and holistic volume on the director currently published. Situating Taymor’s work within the intersections of story and spectacle, contributors to this collection examine issues of creativity, gender, sexuality, and adaptation by focusing on themes from Taymor’s oeuvre including martyrdom, musicality, fidelity, postmodern representations, feminism and queerness, identity, desire, trauma, revenge, hybridity, and obscenity. The result reveals Julie Taymor to be a globally-influenced American director who exhibits and exemplifies the authentic artistry of ingenious storytelling and deserves scholarly attention. This work will be of particular interest to scholars of film, philosophy, popular culture, gender, feminisms, and queer identities.

Matthew Hodge is associate professor at William Peace University. Adam Barkman is professor of philosophy at Redeemer University. Antonio Sanna is teaching assistant at the University of Sassari.

Part I: Creativity

Chapter 1: Julie Taymor’s Frida: A Two-Way Mirror on Female Creativity

Chapter 2: ‘We Can Work It Out’: Reassessing Musicality, Fidelity and Excess in Across the Universe

Chapter 3: From Historical Relevance to Postmodern Revisionism: The Case of Julie Taymor’s Titus

Chapter 4: Across the Universe: How Political Mood Shapes Viewers’ Choices and Box Office Success

Part II: Gender and Sexuality

Chapter 5: Disruptive Desires and Creative Transgressions in Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe

Chapter 6: Framing a Feminist: Vehicles, Bodies and Clothing as Biography in The Glorias

Chapter 7: Frida: Creativity, Trauma and the Woman Artist

Chapter 8: Why Feminism? An Examination of the Philosophy of Gender in The Glorias

Chapter 9: Wanton Boys: Queering Childhood and Youth in Julie Taymor’s Titus

Part III: Adaptation

Chapter 10: Fool’s Fire, Titus, The Tempest: Revenge in the Films of Julie Taymor

Chapter 11: From Titus to Tempest: Taymor’s Divergent Lenses on Shakespeare

Chapter 12: Hybridity and Self-Reflexivity in Julie Taymor’s Film of A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Chapter 13: Compulsive Symbolizations: Scenes of Power, Figuration and Ob/Scenity in Titus

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Critical Companions to Contemporary Directors
Co-Autor Anna Baccanti, Adam Barkman
Sprache englisch
Maße 159 x 239 mm
Gewicht 544 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-6669-3668-5 / 1666936685
ISBN-13 978-1-6669-3668-1 / 9781666936681
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