The Politics of American Actor Training (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Margolis, Ellen; Tyler Renaud, Lissa

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book strives to give a fair hearing to 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135244255
• Artikelnr.: 38268120

Autorenporträt

Ellen Margolis is Associate Professor and Chair of Theatre, Pacific University, Oregon. She is an award-winning director and actor, with writings published in Radical Acts anthology, in theatre journals and short play collections. As playwright, she has done productions and workshops with Vital Theatre, Theatre Limina, Portland Center Stage/PlayGroup, and received commissions from the Susan G. Komen Foundation and Mile Square Theatre. She served as Literary Director, International Centre for Women Playwrights, 2002-2004. Lissa Tyler Renaud has been Director of California-based Actors' Training Project since 1985. Recipient of National Science Foundation and Ford Foundation grants among others, she spent six years overseas as Visiting Professor/Master Teacher of Directing, Theory, Acting, Voice and Ideokinesis. She is a recitalist and award-winning actress, and lectures and publishes widely on the avant-garde and contemporary actor training, in the U.S. and Asia. She serves as co-editor for the International Association of Theatre Critics.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction, Ellen Margolis and Lissa Tyler Renaud, Part I
1: Stanislavsky and Politics: Active Analysis and the American Legacy of
Soviet Oppression, Sharon Marie Carnicke 2: Actor Training Meets Historical
Thinking, Jonathan Chambers 3: The Politics of Western Pedagogy in the
Theatre of India, Chandradasan 4: Degrees of Choice, Leigh Woods 5:
Training Artists or Consumers? Commentary on American Actor Training, Lissa
Tyler Renaud 6: Changing Demographics: Where is Diversity in Theatre
Programs in Higher Education and National Associations?, Donna B. Aronson
7: The Wild, Wild East: Report on the Politics of American Actor Training
Overseas, Lissa Tyler Renaud Part II 8: Beyond Race and Gender: Reframing
Diversity in Actor Training Programs, David Eulus Wiles 9: "Typed" for
What?, Mary Cutler 10: "They accused me of bein' a homosexual": Playing
Kerry Cook in The Exonerated, Derek S. Mud 11: Identity Politics and the
Training of Latino Actors, Micha Espinosa and Antonio Ocampo-Guzman 12:
Keeping It Real Without Selling Out: Toward Confronting and Triumphing Over
Racially Specific Barriers in American Acting Training, Venus Opal Reese
13: Disability and Access: A Manifesto for Actor Training, Victoria Ann
Lewis 14: Arrested or Paralyzed? Reflections on the Erotic Life of an
Acting Teacher, Ellen Margolis Notes on Contributors Index