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.
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.
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