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Applied theatre. Aesthetics /
"Applied Theatre: Aesthetics re-examines how the idea of 'the aesthetic' is relevant to performance in social settings. The disinterestedness that traditional aesthetics claims as a key characteristic of art makes little sense when making performances with ordinary people, rooted in t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama,
2015.
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| Colección: | Applied Theatre.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Applied theatre, aesthetics and the aesthetic; Terminological drift and clarity; Beauty and engagement; An applied theatre aesthetic?; The chapters; Part 1; Chapter 1 Aesthetics and the Aesthetic; What do we mean when we talk about 'Aesthetics'?; Philosophical aesthetics; Immanuel Kant and the emergence of aesthetics; The critique of aesthetics and progressive alternatives; Dewey's pragmatist aesthetics; The aesthetics of participation; Interlude: Eye Queue Hear.
- Chapter 2 Aesthetic Autonomy and Heteronomous AestheticsAesthetic autonomy; Genius, participation and The Radical Aesthetic; Dependent beauty; Heteronomous aesthetics; Berleant and The Aesthetic Field; Shusterman: Updating pragmatism; Johnson and aesthetic understanding; Conclusion; Part 2; Chapter 3 Dancing With Difference: Moving Towards a New Aesthetics; Beauty reflected, recollected and reconceived; Moving beyond moving: StevensonThompson; Fevered Sleep and 'Social Works': On Ageing and Men and Girls Dance; Conclusion.
- Chapter 4 Revolutionary Beauty out of Homophobic Hate: A Reflection on the Performance I Stand Corrected Applied politricks; Applied lackaesthetics; Beauty and the senses ; Beauty and the sacred; Beautiful women, ugly feelings; Thinking beauty; Beautifully black; Beautiful moves; Looking forward; Chapter 5 Competing International Players and their Aesthetic Imperatives: The Future of Internationalized Applied Theatre Practice?; Introduction; Aesthetics; Ethnoscape
- a way of looking; Refugees; International interveners; European artists; Tourists; Conclusion.
- Chapter 6 Aesthetic Play: Between Performance and JusticeIntroduction; Gacaca as a performative; Performing justice and reconciliation
- Art's sublimation (2005); Gacaca as ikinimicu (2010); Conclusion; Chapter 7 The Political Imagination and Contemporary Theatre for Youth; Introduction; Political aesthetics; Rough Theatre today; Responding to young people's lives; Imagination, popular culture, Rough Theatre; Acquiescence: The Rock Eisteddfod Challenge; Popular culture as cultural pedagogy; Chapter 8 The Aesthetics of Becoming; Applied Theatre and the Quest for Cultural Certitude.