Monday, July 09, 2012
This unique edition is the result of the second International
Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network (ITYARN) conference
that was held in Malmoe, Sweden, in May 2011 as part of the XVIIth
ASSITEJ World Congress and Festival. In fifteen essays that are
illustrative of the wide variety as well as of the many
opportunities for research in TYA, this book covers six continents,
includes quantitative, qualitative, ethnographic/ action, and
historiographical methods, and highlights critical theory,
philosophical discourse, play analysis, and other approaches.
The essays deal with a broad range of issues, including
representation, cultural contexts, questions of identity, race-,
class-, and gender theory, notions of child and childhood,
aesthetics, and the influence of media and dominant ideologies.
ITYARN aims to further research in the field of theatre for young
audiences to contextualize and theorize the lively artistic
products for children and youth globally. It is the research
network of ASSITEJ, the International Association of Theatre for
Children and Youth, which co-produced this publication.
Content: van de Water: Foreword · Juncker: The
Relations between Professional Theatre Performances and Children's
Cultural Life · Saglam: TYA as Ideological Production in
Turkey · Bedard: Cultural Hegemony and Theatre for Young
Audiences · Arnold Udoka: Conceptualization of Child and
Childhood in Nigerian Theatre · Jacobs: The Virtual Puppet
in the Machinima Movement: Discovering Virtual Puppetry in the 3D
Performance Space of Video Games · Solberg: Quiet Dissent:
Citizen Activism and the Kodomo Gekijō Movement in 1960 -70s Japan
· Hughes: Taboos of Fear and Age Appropriateness in Youth
Holocaust Drama · Kruckemeyer: Why Are We Scared To Let
Children Be Scared? · Wiginton: Príncipe y Príncipe: Made
in México · Giannone: Searching for America in Laurie
Brooks's Triangle and Cynthia Mercati's Faces of Freedom ·
Schroeder-Arce/ McCoy: Latino/as in Theatre for Young
Audiences, Cyclical Challenge in Higher Education in the United
States · Broster: TYA-UK Developments: Reflections through
a Looking Glass · Gruić: Educational Value in the Theatre
for Young Audiences and Its Relation to the Attitudes of the
Educational Community · Tsai: A Reflection of the Child
and Childhood in Taiwanese TYA through the Winning Plays of The
Taipei Children's Arts Festival · Elnan: How Can the Idea
of Childhood, of Children as Spectators, and of Understanding
Influence Theatre for Young Audiences? · Guss: Modeling
TYA on the Dramaturgy of Children's Imaginative Play-drama
Order your copy of TYA, Culture, Society-International
Essays on Theatre for Young Audiences for € 29,80 by filling up the
form and sending it to: zentrale.frankfurt@peterlang.com
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