Full Description
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.
Contents
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
