Tya, Culture, Society: International Essays on Theatre for Young Audiences- A Publication of Assitej and Ityarn

ISBN-13: 9783631636886 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 203 str.

Manon Van De Water

Opis

This unique edition is the result of the second International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network (ITYARN) conference that was held in Malmoe, Sweden, in May 2011 as part of the XVIIth ASSITEJ World Congress and Festival. In fifteen essays that are illustrative of the wide variety as well as of the many opportunities for research in TYA, this book covers six continents, includes quantitative, qualitative, ethnographic/action, and historiographical methods, and highlights critical theory, philosophical discourse, play analysis, and other approaches. The essays deal with a broad range of issues, including representation, cultural contexts, questions of identity, race-, class-, and gender theory, notions of child and childhood, aesthetics, and the influence of media and dominant ideologies. ITYARN aims to further research in the field of theatre for young audiences to contextualize and theorize the lively artistic products for children and youth globally. It is the research network of ASSITEJ, the International Association of Theatre for Children and Youth, which co-produced this publication.

Spis treści

Contents: Manon van de Water: Foreword - Beth Juncker: What's the Meaning? The Relations between Professional Theatre Performances and Children's Cultural Life - Tülin Saglam: TYA as Ideological Production in Turkey - Roger L. Bedard: Cultural Hegemony and Theatre for Young Audiences: Looking Beyond the «Normal» - Pamela Arnold Udoka: Conceptualization of Child and Childhood in Nigerian Theatre: A Dwindling Phenomenon? - Tristan V. Jacobs: The Virtual Puppet in the Machinima Movement: Discovering Virtual Puppetry in the 3D Performance Space of Video Games - Michelle Solberg: Quiet Dissent: Citizen Activism and the Kodomo Gekij Movement in 1960 - 70s Japan - Erika Hughes: Defining the Child: Taboos of Fear and Age Appropriateness in Youth Holocaust Drama - Finegan Kruckemeyer: The Taboo of Sadness: Why Are We Scared to Let Children Be Scared? - J. Andrew Wiginton: Príncipe y Príncipe: Made in México - Enza Giannone: Searching for America in Laurie Brooks's Triangle and Cynthia Mercati's Faces of Freedom - Roxanne Schroeder-Arce/Chris McCoy: The Chicken or the Egg: Latino/as in Theatre for Young Audiences, Cyclical Challenge in Higher Education in the United States - David Broster: TYA-UK Developments - Reflections through a Looking Glass - Iva Gruic: Educational Value in the Theatre for Young Audiences and Its Relation to the Attitudes of the Educational Community - YiRen Tsai: A Reflection of the Child and Childhood in Taiwanese TYA through the Winning Plays of The Taipei Children's Arts Festival - Merete Elnan: The Notion of Children: How Can the Idea of Childhood, of Children as Spectators, and of Understanding Influence Theatre for Young Audiences? - Faith Gabrielle Guss: Destabilizing Perception and Generating Meaning Seeking? Modeling TYA on the Dramaturgy of Children's Imaginative Play-Drama.

O autorze

Manon van de Water is a Professor of Theatre Research and Director of the Theatre for Youth Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA). Since 2008 she serves as Chair of the ASSITEJ Network ITYARN, the International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network.