Contemporary Drama

Noise Vs Art Method Acting "The Method’s most salient legacy may have more to do with media than with emotional recall, with the ways recording had already changed performance and spectatorship (293)" "But what Brustein called inarticulateness is actually a more complicated proposition about the relationship between noise and music, sound and sense, aesthetic and unaesthetic elements in acting and, indeed, in art—and the ways that recording technology was intervening to transform understanding of these relationships (294)". In terms of recall, a student study in 2004 found some evidence that people from the silent generation dreamt in black and white. This could be the result of either a) television truly effected the ways we perceive or unconscious dreams, or b) during recall, the images associated were in black and white due to the association with the technology at the time. In the future, where smell-o-matic technology can make its way into a technological lands...

The weeks reading from the anthology focuses heavily on education. Chapter 19 and 20 both focuses on Teacher training and limitations of the current higher education system. Going further, chapters 3 and 15 talks about how even existing forms of theater and performance outside of western power will veer its way there during educational distribution. And a common thread between this entire collection of essays invoking of an issue: higher education does not properly teach future scholars how to teach, resulting in a delivery of content resembling a Western Canon.  The issue still is both an economic one, on which we discussed in week 1, but also a rhetorical one, as a trend since the issue of college as universal right has been more widespread. With the notion that college is a stepping stone to "the rest of your life". We are negotiating between a source that wants to eliminate injustice and democratize and liberate through a search for multiple truths with a system that want...

 Mantoan et. al, suggest that the very nature of the "Canon" with a concerted effort to establish a point of permeance in a changing landscape. “Obsessed with this fraught past, we speak of new work as if it were something novel, but the canon is composed of new works grown old. Valuing longevity over innovation, we fail to recognize that one thing that made those works great was their departure from the past (4)”. Michele Foucault  (1969) suggests similarly in introduction of "Archelogy of Knowledge" that scholars and thinkers of his time wants to have unified period of time, but fails to consider how these periods starts and stops, and how other moments can easily fracture that idyllic whole. Likewise, Gulliroy (1992) contends with how establishing what is a practice and isn't reflects similarly to how the Christian religion chose was it is and isn't and grounds of orthodoxy and control.  With these tests, I'm reminded of the challenge that major relig...