Drama, Disability and Education : A critical exploration for students and practitioners

ISBN-13: 9780415675031 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 200 str.

Andy Kempe

Opis

What can society learn about disability through the way it is portrayed in TV, films and plays? This insightful and accessible text explores and analyses the way disability is portrayed in drama, and how that portrayal may be interpreted by young audiences.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Dramatic encounters with disability  2. A chronology of disabled dramatic characters  3. ‘Damaging mythology: disability and stereotype  4. The dramatic symbolism of disability  5. Performing disability  6. The body beautiful, the beautiful mind  7a. Who cares?  7b. Play script: For ever and ever  8a. Peer perspectives  8b. Play script: Buckethead  9. From the horse's mouth  Plays referred to  References   Index

O autorze

Andy Kempe is a Teaching Fellow of the University of Reading, UK, where he is Professor of Drama Education.