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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.
Publication
Lanham : Lexington Books, [2024]

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Additional Authors
  • Hodge, Matthew, 1985-
  • Barkman, Adam, 1979-
  • Sanna, Antonio, 1978-
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"--
Series Statement
Critical companions to contemporary directors
Uniform Title
Critical companions to contemporary directors.
Subject
  • Taymor, Julie, 1952- > Criticism and interpretation
  • Taymor, Julie, 1952-
  • Women motion picture producers and directors > United States
  • Motion pictures > United States > History
  • Criticism and interpretation
  • Women motion picture producers and directors
  • Motion pictures
  • United States
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • 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.
Call Number
MWES (Taymor, J.) 24-2864
ISBN
  • 9781666936681
  • 1666936685
  • 9781666936698 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2024000051
OCLC
1420353691
Title
A critical companion to Julie Taymor / edited by Matthew Hodge, Adam Barkman, Antonio Sanna.
Publisher
Lanham : Lexington Books, [2024]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Critical companions to contemporary directors
Critical companions to contemporary directors.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Hodge, Matthew, 1985- editor.
Barkman, Adam, 1979- editor.
Sanna, Antonio, 1978- editor.
Other Form:
Online version: Critical companion to Julie Taymor Lanham : Lexington Books, [2024] 9781666936698 (DLC) 2024000052
Research Call Number
MWES (Taymor, J.) 24-2864
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