The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies

The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies
Author: Tracy C. Davis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 570
Release: 2024-02-08
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1009294911

We often know performance when we see it – but how should we investigate it? And how should we interpret what we find out? This book demonstrates why and how mixed methods research is necessary for investigating and explaining performance and advancing new critical agendas in cultural study. The wide range of aesthetic forms, cultural meanings, and social functions found in theatre and performance globally invites a corresponding variety of research approaches. The essays in this volume model reflective consideration of the means, processes, and choices for conducting performance research that is historical, ethnographic, aesthetic, or computational. An international set of contributors address what is meant by planning or designing a research project, doing research (locating and collecting primary sources or resources), and the ensuing work of interpreting and communicating insights. Providing illuminating and necessary guidance, this volume is an essential resource for scholars and students of theatre, performance, and dance.

The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies

The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies
Author: Tracy C. Davis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-02-08
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781009294881

We often know performance when we see it - but how should we investigate it? And how should we interpret what we find out? This book demonstrates why and how mixed methods research is necessary for investigating and explaining performance and advancing new critical agendas in cultural study. The wide range of aesthetic forms, cultural meanings, and social functions found in theatre and performance globally invites a corresponding variety of research approaches. The essays in this volume model reflective consideration of the means, processes, and choices for conducting performance research that is historical, ethnographic, aesthetic, or computational. An international set of contributors address what is meant by planning or designing a research project, doing research (locating and collecting primary sources or resources), and the ensuing work of interpreting and communicating insights. Providing illuminating and necessary guidance, this volume is an essential resource for scholars and students of theatre, performance, and dance.

The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism

The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism
Author: Catherine Burroughs
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 745
Release: 2023-09-29
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1000815986

The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism is the first wide-ranging anthology of theatre theory and dramatic criticism by women writers. Reproducing key primary documents contextualized by short essays, the collection situates women’s writing within, and also reframes the field’s male-defined and male-dominated traditions. Its collection of documents demonstrates women’s consistent and wide-ranging engagement with writing about theatre and performance and offers a more expansive understanding of the forms and locations of such theoretical and critical writing, dealing with materials that often lie outside established production and publication venues. This alternative tradition of theatre writing that emerges allows contemporary readers to form new ways of conceptualizing the field, bringing to the fore a long-neglected, vibrant, intelligent, deeply informed, and expanded canon that generates a new era of scholarship, learning, and artistry. The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatrical Theory and Dramatic Criticism is an important intervention into the fields of Theatre and Performance Studies, Literary Studies, and Cultural History, while adding new dimensions to Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies.

The Trouble With Art

The Trouble With Art
Author: Roger Sansi
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2024-10-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1040115632

Art troubles anthropology. Anthropologists have often taken a philistine, sceptical position of distance towards art and aesthetics as a predominantly Western bourgeois institution. But art, not only as a Western institution, generated its own philistine and iconoclastic revisions and undoings, its anti-art, that have engaged anthropology into its theory and practice. Anthropology is thus part of the trouble with art. But trouble doesn’t necessarily obfuscate, it can also reveal and render visible fault lines and problems; troubles can be assemblages of disparate and even contradictory parts that paradoxically do work together. This volume proposes an anthropology that moves beyond philistinism and the contradictions between critical anthropologies of art and collaborative and experimental anthropologies with art.

Realisms in East Asian Performance

Realisms in East Asian Performance
Author: Jessica Nakamura
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2023-10-04
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0472903845

Existing scholarly discussions of theatrical realism have been predominantly limited to 19th-century European and Russian theater, with little attention paid to wider explorations and alternative definitions of the practice. Examining theater forms and artists from China, Japan, and Korea, Realisms in East Asian Performance brings together a group of theater historians to reconsider realism through the performing arts of East Asia. The book’s contributors emphasize trans-regional conversations and activate inter-Asian dialogues on theatrical production. Tracing historical trajectories, starting from premodern periods through today, the book seeks to understand realisms’ multiple origins, forms, and cultural significances, and examines their continuities, disruptions, and divergences. In its diversity of topics, geographic locations, and time periods, Realisms in East Asian Performance aims to globalize and de-center the dominant narratives surrounding realism in theater, and revise assumptions about the spectacular and theatrical forms of Asian performance. Understanding realism as a powerful representational style, chapters collectively reevaluate acts of representation on stage not just for East Asia, but for theater and performance studies more broadly.

Real Theatre

Real Theatre
Author: Paul Rae
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2019
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1107186595

Draws on musicals, plays and experimental performances to show what theatre is made of and how we experience it.

Theatre Ecology

Theatre Ecology
Author: Baz Kershaw
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2007-12-13
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0521877164

A study into the relationships between performance, theatre and environmental ecology.

The Cambridge Guide to Asian Theatre

The Cambridge Guide to Asian Theatre
Author: James R. Brandon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 1997-01-28
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521588225

A comprehensive and authoritative single-volume reference work on the theatre arts of Asia-Oceania. Nine expert scholars provide entries on performance in twenty countries from Pakistan in the west, through India and Southeast Asia to China, Japan and Korea in the east. An introductory pan-Asian essay explores basic themes - they include ritual, dance, puppetry, training, performance and masks. The national entries concentrate on the historical development of theatre in each country, followed by entries on the major theatre forms, and articles on playwrights, actors and directors. The entries are accompanied by rare photographs and helpful reading lists.

The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Historiography

The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Historiography
Author: Thomas Postlewait
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-04-30
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0521495709

A 'how to' guide for students and teachers of theatre history, covering archival research, developing historical descriptions and writing reports.