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1 online resource (463 pages) |
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Routledge Companions Ser |
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Routledge Companions Ser
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Cover; Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of contents; Editor and contributor biographies; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Theatre of the Oppressed and its time(s); Structure of the book; Part I: Roots; Genealogies; Critical frames; Oppression; From roots to branches; Part II: Ground shifts; Changing landscapes in late capitalism; Critical reflections on the early multiplication of Theatre of the Oppressed; Part III: Contemporary practice; Spaces; Practices in context; Sharpening our tools; Notes; Part I Roots; Genealogies |
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1 New York and after: Gassner, realism, and the "method"Notes; 2 Arena theatre, Brazil, Boal: Between farces and allegories; Arena Theatre of São Paulo; The first farce; Workers, people, and heroism; Our end of the century; Notes; 3 Augusto boal and the nuestra américa (our america) theatre; 1968: organizational movement; Exile and continental integration; The Cultural Workers' Front; The Nuestra América Theatre; Notes; 4 Agitprop and theatre of the oppressed; Introduction; Agitational Process (transliterated Russian: "Agitsud"); The Living Newspaper ("djeevaja gazeta") |
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The agitational play ("agitki")The Dialectical Play; The scene-ification ("scenezations"); Political and cultural struggles in Latin America; Augusto Boal: sources and experiments; Revolution in South America; Mutirão em Novo Sol; Show Opinião; Arena Conta Zumbi and Arena Conta Tiradentes; Primeira Feira Paulista de Opinião; The Living Newspaper; Forum Theatre; Legislative Theatre; Note; 5 Epic theatre and theatre of the oppressed: "brecht and, modestly, [boal]!"; Notes; 6 Paulo freire and augusto boal: praxis, poetry, and utopia; First words .. |
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Paulo Freire: from banking education to critical educationPraxis and utopia in the work of Paulo Freire; Praxis of liberation and theatrical poetics in the work of Augusto Boal; The roots of Theatre of the Oppressed; Theatre as a social action; Final reflections: the legacy of reinvention; Notes; Critical frames; 7 Theatre of the oppressed as a dialectical game?; Movement, contradiction, totality; The Arena Theatre, from bourgeois drama to dialectical theatre; Theatre of the Oppressed as a dialectical game?; Notes |
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8 Constraints and possibilities in the flesh: The body in theatre of the oppressedThe body as speech; The body as concrete material carved by external relations and forces; The body as a stranger to be met; The body made by doing/practice; The body as a way of knowing; "The body and the soul remember. The images do not fade!"; Notes; 9 Contradictions of theatre of the oppressed; Contradiction between theory and practice; The problem of the "leading role"; Stop! Cést Magique; Notes; 10 Identities, otherness, and emancipation in theatre of the oppressed |
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From the cultural revolution to the guerrilla: emancipation as taken for granted? |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Howe, Kelly
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Soeiro, José
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| ISBN |
9781351967976 |
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1351967975 |
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