Taymor's tempests

Sea Change, or Seeing Little Change in Responses to Gender and Leadership

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7844112
AutoresRalph Turner (,), Ralph Lamar Turner (Eastern Kentucky University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Volumen24
Número6
Páginas689-704
Fecha de publicación2015-11-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Gender Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0958-9236 • E-ISSN: 1465-3869
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09589236.2013.874941
OpenAlexW2142709768
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas23

Veteran film and stage director Julie Taymor suffered succeeding disappointments when her cinematic adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest was poorly reviewed and failed at the box office in 2010, and she was subsequently fired as writer-director of the stage musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark in 2011. Contextualizing the rejections of Taymor and her creations requires analysis that delves deeply into history and broadly across multiple dimensions, including the cultural and political dynamics shaping the complex interplay between gender and leadership. Among the topics explored are transactional and transformational leadership styles exhibited by female leaders; attitudes toward female leadership; current masculinist leadership assumptions in the shadow of America's ‘war on terror’; the hegemonic masculinity inherent in today's blockbuster superhero cinema inspired by Joseph Campbell's ‘hero's journey’; and the entertainment industry's gender regimes. In her artistic depictions of two leaders – the magical Prospero and the mythical Spider-Man – Taymor challenged masculinist assumptions, creating aesthetic products at odds with the hegemonic masculinity dominating the cultural marketplace. Simultaneously, Taymor's artistic leadership was undermined by multiple gender regimes, of Hollywood, Broadway, and the music industry. Ironically, Taymor's The Tempest forecast the writer-director's own situation in the loss of leadership by her character Prospera

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Film genre · Hollywood · Leadership style · Literature · Masculinity · Media studies · Movie theater · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Public relations · Sociology · Tempest · Transactional leadership · Transformational leadership · Gender Studies · Law · Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies · Psychology · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Theater, Performance, and Music History