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The politics of American ac...
This book addresses the historical, social, colonial, and administrative contexts that determine today's U.S. actor training, as well as matters of identity politics, access, and marginalization as they emerge in classrooms and rehearsal halls. It considers persistent, questioning voices about our nation's acting training as it stands, thereby contributing to the national dialogue the diverse perspectives and proposals needed to keep American actor training dynamic and germane, both within the U.S. and abroad. Prominent academics and artists view actor training through a political, cultural
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monografia Rebiun38914715 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun38914715 m o d | cr -n--------- 090424s2009 nyu ob 001 0 eng d 1-135-24424-3 1-280-66549-1 1-282-31524-2 1-135-24425-1 9786612315244 9786613642424 0-203-86777-7 MiAaPQ eng rda pn MiAaPQ MiAaPQ eng 792.02/807073 22 The politics of American actor training edited by Ellen Margolis and Lissa Tyler Renaud 1st ed New York Routledge 2009 New York New York Routledge 1 online resource (227 p.) 1 online resource (227 p.) Text txt computer c online resource cr Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies 11 Description based upon print version of record Includes bibliographical references and index Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I; 1 Stanislavsky and Politics: Active Analysis and the American Legacy of Soviet Oppression; 2 Actor Training Meets Historical Thinking; 3 The Politics of Western Pedagogy in the Theatre of India; 4 Degrees of Choice; 5 Training Artists or Consumers?: Commentary on American Actor Training; 6 Changing Demographics: Where Is Diversity in Theatre Programs in Higher Education and National Associations?; 7 The Wild, Wild East: Report on the Politics of American Actor Training Overseas; Part II 8 Beyond Race and Gender: Reframing Diversity in Actor-Training Programs9 "Typed" for What?; 10 "They accused me of bein' a homosexual": Playing Kerry Cook in The Exonerated; 11 Identity Politics and the Training of Latino Actors; 12 Keeping It Real Without Selling Out: Toward Confronting and Triumphing Over Racially-Specific Barriers in American Acting Training; 13 Disability and Access: A Manifesto for Actor Training; 14 Arrested or Paralyzed?: Reflections on the Erotic Life of an Acting Teacher; Contributors; Index This book addresses the historical, social, colonial, and administrative contexts that determine today's U.S. actor training, as well as matters of identity politics, access, and marginalization as they emerge in classrooms and rehearsal halls. It considers persistent, questioning voices about our nation's acting training as it stands, thereby contributing to the national dialogue the diverse perspectives and proposals needed to keep American actor training dynamic and germane, both within the U.S. and abroad. Prominent academics and artists view actor training through a political, cultural English Acting- Study and teaching- United States Drama in education- United States Margolis, Ellen 1959-) Renaud, Lissa Tyler 0-415-80121-4 Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies 11