Blindness And Spectatorship In Ancient And Modern Theatres
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Author | : Marchella Ward |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2023-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1009372777 |
Examines the role that spectators play in the reception and perpetuation of ableist stereotypes about blindness in the theatre.
Author | : Mark Swetz |
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Release | : 2012 |
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Using the social model of disability as a catalyst, this practice as research project starts with the understanding that theatre can disable some of its spectators. Contemporary theatre is conventionally visual. If a theatregoer has low or no vision she or he can be disable by theatre. An investigation of historic directing practice and dramaturgy will demonstrate an ocular bias in contemporary performance. A theatre director is in a unique position to counter this bias and influence opening performance to those with visual impairments or blindness. The idea of blind spectatorship is a provocation for directors and theatre makers. What are popular and experiential definitions of blindness and how might these ideas influence conceptions of an audience? How does theatre disable someone with low or no-vision? What can a director do to open performance to a blind or visually impaired spectator? Audio description interviews with audience members and access specialists, the practice of theatre companies like Extant and Graeae and an Affirmative Model of Disability frame and inform this study. It will be argued that access strategies for the visually impaired or blind, outside of a very few companies, are not widely considered within an artistic purview. This thesis aims to place these access responsibilities firmly within a director's control and considerations. By locating this study in my own directing practice, I can demonstrate how performance can be opened to a broader audience. Four fully produced stage plays covering a range of performance styles (kōläzh, 2006; Foto, 2010; In the Tunnel, 2010; Variations on the Death of Trotsky, 2012) and several laboratory experiments focused on elements of staging, production, directorial intent and perceptive intersections of access are used to question and exhibit the findings of this study. Sonic dramaturgy emerges as a particularly useful tool for theatre makers and an economic and scalable balance to visual conventions.
Author | : John William Cunliffe |
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Total Pages | : 1186 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Classical literature |
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Author | : Vayos Liapis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2021-04 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1107155703 |
Shows how contemporary adaptations, on the stage and on the page, can breathe new life into Greek tragedy.
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Total Pages | : 1150 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : English literature |
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A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Author | : Jeanie Grant Moore |
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Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Kings and rulers in literature |
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Author | : Alfred Richard Orage |
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Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 1912 |
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Author | : Omar W. Nasim |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2021-09-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0262045532 |
The astronomer’s observing chair as both image and object, and the story it tells about a particular kind of science and a particular view of history. The astronomer’s chair is a leitmotif in the history of astronomy, appearing in hundreds of drawings, prints, and photographs from a variety of sources. Nineteenth-century stargazers in particular seemed eager to display their observing chairs—task-specific, often mechanically adjustable observatory furniture designed for use in conjunction with telescopes. But what message did they mean to send with these images? In The Astronomer’s Chair, Omar W. Nasim considers these specialized chairs as both image and object, offering an original framework for linking visual and material cultures. Observing chairs, Nasim ingeniously argues, showcased and embodied forms of scientific labor, personae, and bodily practice that appealed to bourgeois sensibilities. Viewing image and object as connected parts of moral, epistemic, and visual economies of empire, Nasim shows that nineteenth-century science was represented in terms of comfort and energy, and that “manly” postures of Western astronomers at work in specialized chairs were contrasted pointedly with images of “effete” and cross-legged “Oriental” astronomers. Extending his historical analysis into the twentieth century, Nasim reexamines what he argues to be a famous descendant of the astronomer’s chair: Freud’s psychoanalytic couch, which directed observations not outward toward the stars but inward toward the stratified universe of the psyche. But whether in conjunction with the mind or the heavens, the observing chair was a point of entry designed for specialists that also portrayed widely held assumptions about who merited epistemic access to these realms in the first place. With more than 100 illustrations, many in color; flexibound.
Author | : KATHRYN G. BOSHER |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2022-03-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781108725651 |
Explores the origins and development of ancient drama, especially comedy, on Sicily and its relationship to the political situation.
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Total Pages | : 730 |
Release | : 1914 |
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