Theatres of learning disability : good, bad, or plain ugly? / Matt Hargrave

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Hargrave, Matt, 1971-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015Description: xiii, 290 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

9781137504388 (cart.)

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Conté: Prologue: Of moths and methods: The Moth Ball (2008). Part I: The surrogate. 1.The end of disability arts: theatre, disability, and the social model: What is learning disability? -- What is disability arts? -- The social model of disability -- Applied theatre: all the marginalise of the world -- Is disability arts worth paying for? --The end of disability arts and the sharing of a hidden secret -- Conclusion. 2. Pure products go crazy: the aesthetic value of learning disability: Defamiliar dramaturgies -- One: Small metal ofjects (2005): Between work and audience -- Between work and artist -- Between art and reality -- Two: Hypothermia (2010): Eugenics as subject -- Form as eugenics -- Anomalies -- Conclusion. 3. On quality: disability and aesthetic judgements: The parallax gap -- Quality: why be interested? -- Pinocchio (2007), the tale of a puppet -- Artistic visions -- Creative tensions -- Heteronomy/autonomy -- The aesthetics of support -- Outsourcing authenticity -- Conclusion . 4.Genealogies: the cultural faces of learning disability: Introduction -- Untamed minds: the face of the outsider -- Radical dignity: the face of the feral -- Intolerable ambiguity: the face of the freak -- Punctum indifferens: the face of the fool -- Conclusion: the trickster. Part II: A proper actor. 5. Nobody's perfect: disability identity as masquerade: On the Verge (2005) -- Creating Colborne -- Camp Syndrome -- Tear marks -- Nobody's perfect. 6.The uncanny return of Boo Radley: disability, dramaturgy, and reception: Introduction: the uncanny -- Ide's affect: Autistic presence -- 'It': the strange presence of Jonathan Ide -- Authorial presence -- Theatrical and un-theatrical presences -- Side affects: Reading the sings -- Looking at the evidence -- Heading them off at the pass -- In the dark -- Conclusion. Conclusion: a proper actor: Amateur professionals -- Towards a craft-based poetics. Envoi: The Bartleby Parallax -- Appendix: Easy read summary

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Llibre	Biblioteca Barcelona	Biblioteca Barcelona BCN Lliure Accés	792.06 HAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		1900071007

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