The Politics of American Actor Training (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)

By: Ellen Margolis and Lissa Tyler Renaud

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Synopsis: This book addresses the historical, social, colonial, and administrative contexts that determine today's U.S. actor training, as well as matters of identity politics, access, and marginalization as they emerge in classrooms and rehearsal halls. It considers 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 abroad. Prominent academics and artists view actor training through a political, cultural or ethical lens, tackling fraught topics about power as it plays out in acting curricula and classrooms. The essays in this volume offer a survey of trends in thinking on actor training and investigate the way American theatre expresses our national identity through the globalization of arts education policy and in the politics of our curriculum decisions.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781135244248
Related ISBNs:: 9780203867778, 9780415896535, 9780415896535, 9780415801218, 9780415801218
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 03/23/20
Copyrighted By:: Taylor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Education, Drama, Plays and Theater
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Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Ellen Margolis
Edited by:: Lissa Tyler Renaud