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A critical companion to Julie Taymor
Title
A critical companion to Julie Taymor / edited by Matthew Hodge, Adam Barkman, Antonio Sanna.
ISBN
9781666936681
1666936685
9781666936698
Publication
Lanham : Lexington Books, [2024]
Physical Description
viii, 265 pages ; 24 cm.
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.
Other formats
Online version: Critical companion to Julie Taymor Lanham : Lexington Books, [2024]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 29, 2024
Series
Critical companions to contemporary directors
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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