{"product_id":"a-critical-companion-to-julie-taymor-9781666936681","title":"A Critical Companion to Julie Taymor","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Creativity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Julie Taymor’s Frida: A Two-Way Mirror on Female Creativity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: ‘We Can Work It Out’: Reassessing Musicality, Fidelity and Excess in Across the Universe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: From Historical Relevance to Postmodern Revisionism: The Case of Julie Taymor’s Titus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Across the Universe: How Political Mood Shapes Viewers’ Choices and Box Office Success\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Gender and Sexuality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Disruptive Desires and Creative Transgressions in Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Framing a Feminist: Vehicles, Bodies and Clothing as Biography in The Glorias\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Frida: Creativity, Trauma and the Woman Artist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Why Feminism? An Examination of the Philosophy of Gender in The Glorias\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Wanton Boys: Queering Childhood and Youth in Julie Taymor’s Titus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: Adaptation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Fool’s Fire, Titus, The Tempest: Revenge in the Films of Julie Taymor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: From Titus to Tempest: Taymor’s Divergent Lenses on Shakespeare\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Hybridity and Self-Reflexivity in Julie Taymor’s Film of A Midsummer Night’s Dream\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13: Compulsive Symbolizations: Scenes of Power, Figuration and Ob\/Scenity in Titus\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042035106135,"sku":"9781666936681","price":72.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-critical-companion-to-julie-taymor-9781666936681","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}