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A Critical Companion to Julie Taymor

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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
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