Critical Companion to Julie Taymor

Matthew Hodge is associate professor at William Peace University.Adam Barkman is professor of philosophy at Redeemer University.Antonio Sanna is teaching assistant at the University of Sassari.

• Part I: CreativityChapter 1: Julie Taymor’s Frida: A Two-Way Mirror on Female CreativityChapter 2: ‘We Can Work It Out’: Reassessing Musicality, Fidelity and Excess in Across the UniverseChapter 3: From Historical Relevance to Postmodern Revisionism: The Case of Julie Taymor’s TitusChapter 4: Across the Universe: How Political Mood Shapes Viewers’ Choices and Box Office SuccessPart II: Gender and SexualityChapter 5: Disruptive Desires and Creative Transgressions in Julie Taymor’s Across the UniverseChapter 6: Framing a Feminist: Vehicles, Bodies and Clothing as Biography in The GloriasChapter 7: Frida: Creativity, Trauma and the Woman ArtistChapter 8: Why Feminism? An Examination of the Philosophy of Gender in The GloriasChapter 9: Wanton Boys: Queering Childhood and Youth in Julie Taymor’s TitusPart III: AdaptationChapter 10: Fool’s Fire, Titus, The Tempest: Revenge in the Films of Julie TaymorChapter 11: From Titus to Tempest: Taymor’s Divergent Lenses on ShakespeareChapter 12: Hybridity and Self-Reflexivity in Julie Taymor’s Film of A Midsummer Night’s DreamChapter 13: Compulsive Symbolizations: Scenes of Power, Figuration and Ob/Scenity in Titus

A multifaceted kaleidoscopic investigation into Julie Taymor's visionary work: the anthology critiques, explores, and unearths the hidden narratives, politics, and unique trends of her auteurship in an insightful, defining and lucid way. The case studies on her filmography—ranging from Shakespeare, an artist's and a feminist icon's biographies, to the Beatles' jukebox musical—are compellingly scrutinized and presented with unsurprising flair and rigour.