Losing It: Staging the Cultural Conundrum of Dementia and Decline in American Theatre

Chansky, Dorothy

Losing It: Staging the Cultural Conundrum of Dementia and Decline in American Theatre
  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2024-08-11
  • 售價: $5,460
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $5,187
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 328
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031209044
  • ISBN-13: 9783031209048

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This monograph is a study of American (U.S.) stage representations of dementia mounted between 1913 and 2019. Its imbricated strands are playtexts; audiences as both the targets of the productions (artifacts in the marketplace) and as anticipated determinants of legibility; and medical science, both as has been (and is) known to researchers and, more importantly, as it has been (and is) known to educated general audiences. As the Baby Boom generation finds itself solidly in the category of "Senior," interest in plays that address personal and social issues around cognitive decline as a potentially frightening and expensive experience, no two iterations of which are identical, have, understandably, burgeoned. This study shines a spotlight on eleven dementia plays that have been produced in the United States over the past century, and seeks, in the words of medical humanities scholar Anne Whitehead, to "open up, and to hold open, central ethical questions of responsiveness, interpretation, responsibility, complicity and care."

Dorothy Chansky is a Professor in the School of Theatre and Dance at Texas Tech University, USA, where she is a President's Excellence in Research Professor. She was Founding Director of Tech's Humanities Center and a past President of the American Theatre and Drama Society as well as Vice President for Publications of the American Society for Theatre Research. Dorothy's previous publications include Composing Ourselves: The Little Theatre Movement and the American Audience (2004) and Kitchen Sink Realisms: Domestic Labor, Dining, and Drama on the American Stage (2015). She was editor of Theatre Annual: A Journal of Theatre and Performance of the Americas from 2011-2016 and is a former Book Review Editor of Theatre Journal. She is a current member of the Translation, Adaptation, and Dramaturgy Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research.

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這本專著研究了1913年至2019年間美國（U.S.）舞台上對癡呆症的表現。其交織的主題包括劇本文本；觀眾作為製作的目標（市場中的文物）以及預期的可讀性決定因素；以及醫學科學，無論是研究者所知的（和現在所知的），更重要的是，受過教育的普通觀眾所知的。隨著嬰兒潮一代穩固地進入「老年」類別，對於探討認知衰退相關的個人和社會議題的劇作的興趣，因其可能令人恐懼且代價高昂的經歷，無兩者相同，顯然已經激增。本研究聚焦於過去一個世紀在美國製作的十一部癡呆症劇作，並試圖用醫學人文學者安妮·懷特海德的話來表達，旨在「開啟並持續開啟對於反應、詮釋、責任、共謀和關懷的核心倫理問題的探討」。

多蘿西·昌斯基（Dorothy Chansky）是美國德州科技大學（Texas Tech University）戲劇與舞蹈學院的教授，並擔任總統卓越研究教授。她曾是該校人文中心的創始主任，並曾擔任美國戲劇與戲劇學會的會長，以及美國戲劇研究學會的出版副會長。多蘿西的先前出版作品包括《自我創作：小劇場運動與美國觀眾》（2004）和《廚房水槽現實主義：美國舞台上的家庭勞動、用餐與戲劇》（2015）。她曾擔任《美洲戲劇與表演期刊》（Theatre Annual: A Journal of Theatre and Performance of the Americas）的編輯，任期為2011年至2016年，並曾擔任《戲劇期刊》（Theatre Journal）的書評編輯。她目前是國際戲劇研究聯合會翻譯、改編與劇本創作工作組的成員。

作者簡介

Dorothy Chansky is a Professor in the School of Theatre and Dance at Texas Tech University, USA, where she is a President's Excellence in Research Professor. She was Founding Director of Tech's Humanities Center and a past President of the American Theatre and Drama Society as well as Vice President for Publications of the American Society for Theatre Research. Dorothy's previous publications include Composing Ourselves: The Little Theatre Movement and the American Audience (2004) and Kitchen Sink Realisms: Domestic Labor, Dining, and Drama on the American Stage (2015). She was editor of Theatre Annual: A Journal of Theatre and Performance of the Americas from 2011-2016 and is a former Book Review Editor of Theatre Journal. She is a current member of the Translation, Adaptation, and Dramaturgy Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research.

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Dorothy Chansky 是美國德州科技大學戲劇與舞蹈學院的教授，並擔任總統卓越研究教授。她曾是該校人文中心的創始主任，以及美國戲劇與戲劇學會的前會長，並曾擔任美國戲劇研究學會的出版副會長。Dorothy 之前的出版作品包括《Composing Ourselves: The Little Theatre Movement and the American Audience》（2004）和《Kitchen Sink Realisms: Domestic Labor, Dining, and Drama on the American Stage》（2015）。她曾擔任《Theatre Annual: A Journal of Theatre and Performance of the Americas》的編輯，任期為2011年至2016年，並曾擔任《Theatre Journal》的書評編輯。她目前是國際戲劇研究聯合會翻譯、改編與劇本創作工作組的成員。

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