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Books > Children's & Educational > The arts > Performing arts
Most students encounter drama as they do poetry and fiction - as
literature to be read - but never experience the performative
nature of theater. How to Teach a Play provides new strategies for
teaching dramatic literature and offers practical, play-specific
exercises that demonstrate how performance illuminates close
reading of the text. This practical guide provides a new generation
of teachers and theatre professionals the tools to develop their
students' performative imagination. Featuring more than 80
exercises, How to Teach a Play provides teaching strategies for the
most commonly taught plays, ranging from classical through
contemporary drama. Developed by contributors from a range of
disciplines, these exercises reveal the variety of practitioners
that make up the theatrical arts; they are written by playwrights,
theater directors, and artistic directors, as well as by dramaturgs
and drama scholars. In bringing together so many different
perspectives, this book highlights the distinctive qualities that
makes theater such a dynamic genre. This collection offers an array
of proven approaches for anyone teaching drama: literature and
theater professors; high school teachers; dramaturgs and directors.
Written in an accessible and jargon-free style, both instructors
and directors can immediately apply the activity to the classroom
or rehearsal. Whether you specialize in drama or only teach a play
every now and again, these exercises will inspire you to modify,
transform, and reinvent your own role in the dramatic arts. Online
resources to accompany this book are available
at:https://www.bloomsbury.com/how-to-teach-a-play-9781350017528/.
Minions: The Rise of Gru, released in UK cinemas in July 2022. The
official retelling of the highly anticipated movie Minions: The
Rise of Gru brings the magic home so fans can experience the
Minions' adventures again and again.
Coraline (Henry Selick, 2009) is stop-motion studio LAIKA's
feature-length debut based on the popular children's novel by
British author Neil Gaiman. Heralding a revival in global interest
in stop-motion animation, the film is both an international
cultural phenomenon and a breakthrough moment in the technological
evolution of the craft. This open access collection brings together
an international group of practitioners and scholars to examine
Coraline's place in animation history and culture, dissect its
politics, and unpack its role in the technological and aesthetic
development of its medium. More broadly, it celebrates stop motion
as a unique and enduring artform while embracing its capacity to
evolve in response to cultural, political, and technological
changes, as well as shifting critical and audience demands. Divided
into three sections, this volume's chapters situate Coraline within
an interconnected network of historical, industrial, discursive,
theoretical, and cultural contexts. They place the film in
conversation with the medium's aesthetic and technological history,
broader global intellectual and political traditions, and questions
of animation reception and spectatorship. In doing so, they invite
recognition - and appreciation - of the fact that Coraline occupies
many liminal spaces at once. It straddles the boundary between
children's entertainment and traditional 'adult' genres, such as
horror and thriller. It complicates a seemingly straight(forward)
depiction of normative family life with gestures of queer
resistance. Finally, it marks a pivotal point in stop-motion
animation's digital turn. Following the film's recent tenth
anniversary, the time is right to revisit its production history,
evaluate its cultural and industry impact, and celebrate its legacy
as contemporary stop-motion cinema's gifted child. As the first
book-length academic study of this contemporary animation classic,
this volume serves as an authoritative introduction and a primary
reference on the film for scholars, students, practitioners, and
animation fans. The ebook editions of this book are available open
access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on
bloomsburycollections.com.
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