Women and Puppetry: Critical and Historical Investigations

Author:   Alissa Mello ,  Claudia Orenstein ,  Cariad Astles
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780415787390


Pages:   222
Publication Date:   13 May 2019
Format:   Paperback
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"Women and Puppetry is the first publication dedicated to the study of women in the field of puppetry arts. It includes critical articles and personal accounts that interrogate specific historical moments, cultural contexts, and notions of ""woman"" on and off stage. Part I, ""Critical Perspective,"" includes historical and contemporary analyses of women’s roles in society, gender anxiety revealed through the unmarked puppet body, and sexual expression within oppressive social contexts. Part II, ""Local Contexts: Challenges and Transformations,"" investigates work of female practitioners within specific cultural contexts to illuminate how women are intervening in traditionally male spaces. Each chapter in Part II offers brief accounts of specific social histories, barriers, and gender biases that women have faced, and the opportunities afforded female creative leaders to appropriate, revive, and transform performance traditions. And in Part III, ""Women Practitioners Speak,"" contemporary artists reflect on their experiences as female practitioners within the art of puppet theatre. Representing female writers and practitioners from across the globe, Women and Puppetry offers students and scholars a comprehensive interrogation of the challenges and opportunities that women face in this unique art form."

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Author:   Alissa Mello ,  Claudia Orenstein ,  Cariad Astles
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.322kg
ISBN:  

9780415787390


ISBN 10:   0415787394
Pages:   222
Publication Date:   13 May 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Critical Perspectives on Women in Puppet Theatre Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Part II: Local Contexts: Challenges and Transformations Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Part III: Women Practitioners Speak Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Index

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This co-edited volume takes strides in object theatre's performance history, and does additional service by interrogating gender issues, past and present. The book shows that writing about puppetry and women is necessary, especially as the work of women in puppetry accelerates internationally. - KATHY FOLEY, Asian Theatre Journal, University of California-Santa Cruz


This co-edited volume takes strides in object theatre's performance history, and does additional service by interrogating gender issues, past and present. The book shows that writing about puppetry and women is necessary, especially as the work of women in puppetry accelerates internationally. - KATHY FOLEY, Asian Theatre Journal, University of California-Santa Cruz


"""This co-edited volume takes strides in object theatre’s performance history, and does additional service by interrogating gender issues, past and present. The book shows that writing about puppetry and women is necessary, especially as the work of women in puppetry accelerates internationally."" - KATHY FOLEY, Asian Theatre Journal, University of California-Santa Cruz"


Author Information

"Alissa Mello is an independent theatre artist and scholar, whose research interests include women and performance, as well as practice and social justice. Her publications include a chapter in Undisciplining Dance in 9 Movements and 8 Stumbles (2018), and articles in Performance Research, Puppetry International and PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. Claudia Orenstein is professor of theatre at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She has spent over a decade writing on puppetry, and her publications include The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance (co-editor) and Festive Revolutions: The Politics of Popular Theatre and the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Cariad Astles is course leader for the BA in puppetry at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and lecturer in Drama at Exeter University, UK. She specialises in training and directing for puppetry performance and in the use of puppets within healthcare. Her publications include International Puppetry Research: Tracing Past and Present, ""Puppetry and dictatorship"" in Performing (for) Survival: Theatre, Crisis and Extremity, and ""Puppetry Training in Contemporary Live Theatre"" in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training."

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