Theater and Human Flourishing

Herausgeber: Young, Harvey

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume, part of the Humanities and Human Flourishing series, is an edited collection focused on the significance of theater in regard to wellbeing and human flourishing. Bridging new scholarship in psychology and positive psychology, with new perspectives in theater and performance studies, this volume features eleven prominent theater and performance studies scholars who offer original, previously unpublished examinations of the social benefits of theater and performance. This volume explores the question: Why is theater considered a "social good"? And what makes theater a valuable contribution to happiness and wellbeing?

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Produktdetails

• The Humanities and Human Flourishing
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 153mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9780197622278
• ISBN-10: 0197622275
• Artikelnr.: 66154060

Autorenporträt

Harvey Young is the Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Boston University. He is the author or editor of ten books, including Theatre & Race, Embodying Black Experience, The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre and, most recently, Theatre after Empire.

Inhaltsangabe

* Series Editor's Foreword by James O. Pawelski
* Introduction by Harvey Young
* Chapter 1: "Actors as Surrogate Sufferers: Toward a Model for
Well-Being in Acting Training"
* Scott Magelssen
* Chapter 2: "The Potential of Pain: Conflict Dramaturgy and
Transformation in the Theatre"
* Laura A. Lodewyck
* Chapter 3: "Braver Angels: Perfoming Comity in a Polarized Era"
* John Fletcher
* Chapter 4: "Beyond Survival: Theatre of the Oppressed, Flourishing
while Fighting, and Fighting to Flourish"
* Kelly Howe
* Chapter 5: "Community Musical Theatre as a Human Flourishing Project"
* Stacy Wolf
* Chapter 6: "Teaching Theatre and Detroit History for Undergraduates
to Flourish"
* Lisa L. Biggs
* Chapter 7: "Changing States: English-Language Theatre in Quebec"
* Erin Hurley
* Chapter 8: "Refusing to Flourish: Jennifer Moon and Anant Shinar
Perform Self-Help"
* Gwyneth Shanks
* Chapter 9: "On Laughter and the Bonds of Community"
* Harvey Young
* Chapter 10: "Touching Theatre: Practice, Criticism and Aesthetics of
Touch in the Flourishing Theatrical Moment"
* Marcia Ferguson
* Chapter 11: "Theatre, Performance and Community Cultural Development
for Human Thriving"
* Stephanie Etheridge Woodson
* Chapter 12: "Theatrical Flourishing: A Roundtable Discussion"
* Index