Historiography and the Theatrical Event: A Primer with Twelve Cruxes

Postlewait, Thomas

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“…Furthermore, as socially embedded researchers our own experiences and perspectives on schooling affect the analysis. Theatre historian Thomas Postlewait (1991) attended to this poststructural dilemma in his discussion of historiography and the "cruxes" that separate researcher and event, and we the authors acknowledge our own Foucauldian interest in the intersection of the production of knowledge and power in school settings as we viewed the images for this research. In this way, when looking at photographs of ritual and ceremony, we consider how ideology is manifested in the body, how this process can be seen in photographs, and how photographs taken over long periods of time reveal the "cast" changing while the "play" remains the same.…”

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School as Ceremony and Ritual: How Photography Illuminates Performances of Ideological Transfer

Chappell

Margolis

2010

Qualitative Inquiry

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Images of the places and activities called "school" as a formal institution are rich data for the inquiring gaze. This article focuses specifically on historical photos of school rituals and ceremonies through which young people perform particular narratives of schooling through repetitive embodied practice and in turn construct values and beliefs about themselves and wider society. In particular, we look at rituals of the habitual, coming of age ceremonies, patriotic rituals and ceremonies, and degradation rituals and ceremonies. In analysis of these photographs, we ask, what meanings are (re)performed in such rituals and ceremonies? Why are these performances important to consider in the context of young people's identity negotiation and school reform? And, after such an analysis, how might any of the performances contain spaces for (student and teacher) agency, including resistance and transformation?

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School as Ceremony and Ritual: How Photography Illuminates Performances of Ideological Transfer

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Margolis

2010

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Sound Design: A Phenomenology

Wenn

2019

Performance Phenomenology

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Sleep No More and the Discourses of Shakespeare Performance

Hopkins

2024

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This Element focuses on Sleep No More, theatre adaptation of Macbeth produced by the British company Punchdrunk. This Element frames the Shakespeare adaptation as part of a system of ghostly citationality through which audiences understand the significance of the past in performances today. Hopkins introduces the concept of “uncanny spectatorship” to describe audience practice in Sleep No More and other performance contexts. The Element positions experiences like Sleep No More as forms of critical inquiry, and, despite its seemingly analog format, Sleep No More is discussed as a valuable site for media research. Ultimately, Sleep No More and the Discourses of Shakespeare Performance Sleep No More offers an opportunity to explore a set of concepts that are significant to the subject of Shakespeare Performance and to consider the ways in which audiences interact with bodies, spaces, text, and media.

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Historiography and the Theatrical Event: A Primer with Twelve Cruxes

Cited by 27 publications

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School as Ceremony and Ritual: How Photography Illuminates Performances of Ideological Transfer

School as Ceremony and Ritual: How Photography Illuminates Performances of Ideological Transfer

Sound Design: A Phenomenology

Sleep No More and the Discourses of Shakespeare Performance

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