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Ghost Light

An Introductory Handbook for Dramaturgy

By: Michael Mark Chemers

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Ghost Light

An Introductory Handbook for Dramaturgy

By: Michael Mark Chemers

A new edition of the celebrated introduction to dramaturgy training and practice Since its release in 2010, Ghost Light: An Introductory Handbook for Dramaturgy has become the international standard for dramaturgy training and practice. The first textbook introduced students to the “ghost light” model of dramaturgy—a creatively engaged, artistically vibrant approach that draws on extensive knowledge of theatre history, practice, and theory—and this second edition brings the conversation up to the present. Over three parts, author and theory creator Michael Mark Chemers helps students explore the world of the dramaturg. Part 1 describes what dramaturgs do, presents a detailed history of dramaturgy, and summarizes many of the critical theories needed to analyze and understand dramatic texts. Part 2 teaches students to read, write, and analyze scripts through a twelve-step program with suggestions about how to approach various genres and play structures. The final part delves into the relationships dramaturgs forge and offers useful advice about collaborating with other artists. It also includes ideas for audience outreach initiatives such as marketing and publicity plans, educational programs, program notes and lobby displays, and more. Perfectly suited for the undergraduate theatre classroom, this holistic guide includes chapter exercises for students to practice the skills as they learn. The new edition also incorporates recent theory and new resources on multimedia performance and dramaturgy in the digital age. As the field of dramaturgy continues to shift and change, this new edition of Ghost Light: An Introductory Handbook for Dramaturgy prepares theatre students and practitioners to create powerful, relevant performances of all types.

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Ghost Light

An Introductory Handbook for Dramaturgy

By: Michael Mark Chemers

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Ghost Light

An Introductory Handbook for Dramaturgy

By: Michael Mark Chemers

Since its release in 2010, Ghost Light: An Introductory Handbook for Dramaturgy has become the international standard for dramaturgy training and practice. As the field of dramaturgy continues to shift and change, this new edition prepares theatre students and practitioners to create powerful, relevant performances of all types.

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Freak Inheritance

Eugenics and Extraordinary Bodies in Performance

By: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson,Michael Mark Chemers,Play and Design at the University of California University of California Santa Cruz Michael Mark Chemers,Analola Santana,Associate Professor Department of Theatre Analola Santana

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Freak Inheritance

Eugenics and Extraordinary Bodies in Performance

In Freak Inheritance, both leading authors and emerging voices use cutting-edge disability and cultural theories to expose the operations of eugenicist thought in historical and contemporary culture. It is the follow-up to the field-defining Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body (1996).

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Oxford University Press

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0197691137

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Freak Inheritance

Eugenics and Extraordinary Bodies in Performance

By: Michael M. Chemers,Analola Santana

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Freak Inheritance

Eugenics and Extraordinary Bodies in Performance

By: Michael M. Chemers,Analola Santana

The long-awaited follow-up to Garland-Thomson's field-defining book Freakery, Freak Inheritance illuminates the convergence of the freak show era with the eugenics era, explicating the cultural work of the freak show as a compelling range of performances of cultural and social Others that emerge as eugenic targets from the late 19th century into the 20th century and beyond. This book explores the wildly popular performances that told compelling stories about categories of people that scientific and social-scientific discourses increasingly described - and sometimes still describe - as biologically inferior. Although much work has emerged recently about the history of eugenics, this collection highlights the specific ways that modes of exaggerated commercial popular performances create a public conversation that mirrors pathological narratives of human difference that are now firmly established as the categories of normal and abnormal, healthy and diseased, beneficial and harmful. This connection between narratives of freakery and normalcy gesture towards a fuller understanding of how eugenic thinking has re-emerged strongly as a force in medical science and cultural thinking aimed at producing the supposed "best" and "most useful" kinds of people.

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Systemic Dramaturgy

A Handbook for the Digital Age

By: Michael Mark Chemers,Mike Sell

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Systemic Dramaturgy

A Handbook for the Digital Age

By: Michael Mark Chemers,Mike Sell

In this handbook for working theatrically with technology, authors Michael Mark Chemers and Mike Sell discuss in depth the application of the critical skills cultivated by dramaturgs to extra-theatrical endeavors, including games, multi-platform performance, and installations"--

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0809338319

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Systemic Dramaturgy

A Handbook for the Digital Age

By: Michael Mark Chemers,Mike Sell

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A Handbook for the Digital Age

By: Michael Mark Chemers,Mike Sell

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Freak Inheritance

Eugenics and Extraordinary Bodies in Performance

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Staging Stigma

A Critical Examination of the American Freak Show

By: M. Chemers

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Staging Stigma

A Critical Examination of the American Freak Show

By: M. Chemers

Staging Stigma critically examines the freak show performance tradition, using meticulous historical research and cultural criticism to change the way we understand both performance and disability.

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