The politics of American actor training
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 a...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2010.
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| Series: | Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Ellen Margolis and Lissa Tyler Renaud
- Stanislavsky and politics : active analysis and the American legacy of Soviet oppression / Sharon Marie Carnicke
- Actor training meets historical thinking / Jonathan Chambers
- The politics of Western pedagogy in the theatre of India / Chandradasan
- Degrees of choice / Leigh Woods
- Training artists or consumers? Commentary on American actor training / Lissa Tyler Renaud
- Changing demographics : where is diversity in theatre programs in higher education and national associations? / Donna B. Aronson
- The wild, wild East : report on the politics of American actor training overseas / Lissa Tyler Renaud
- Beyond race and gender : reframing diversity in actor-training programs / David Eulus Wiles
- "Typed" for what? / Mary Cutler
- "They accused me of bein' a homosexual" : playing Kerry Cook in The exonerated / Derek S. Mudd
- Identity politics and the training of Latino actors / Micha Espinosa and Antonio Ocampo-Guzman
- Keeping it real without selling out : toward confronting and triumphing over racially-specific barriers in American acting training / Venus Opal Reese
- Disability and access: a manifesto for actor training / Victoria Ann Lewis
- Arrested or paralyzed? Reflections on the erotic life of an acting teacher / Ellen Margolis.