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Bourdieu in the Studio: Decolonising and Decentering Actor Training Through Ludic Activism book cover

1st Edition

Bourdieu in the Studio Decolonising and Decentering Actor Training Through Ludic Activism

By Evi Stamatiou Copyright 2024
254 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book offers tools to address the growing and urgent interest in exposing and challenging unconscious biases in the studio, exploiting how actor training uniquely combines elements of education and culture. It is the first practical and rigorous investigation of Pierre Bourdieu’s idea that domination and inequality are embodied in surreptitious ways. This book adapts and develops the... Read more

List of Figures

List of Videos

Acknowledgements

PART I
Reconnaissance

Foreword by Jonathan Pitches

Introduction: A Reconnaissance of Social Problems in Actor Training

PART II
Planning

1 The Conceptual Framework of Ludic Activism

2 The Precursors of Ludic Activism

3 The Scheme of Work of Ludic Activism

PART III
Application

4 Enacting and Observing Ludic Activism

PART IV
Evaluation

5 Evaluation and Reflection on Ludic Activism

Conclusion: Towards Teacher-student Alliances that Decolonise and Decenter Actor Training

Index

Biography

Evi Stamatiou is a practitioner-researcher of actor training. She is a Senior Lecturer in Acting for Stage and Screen and Course Leader of the MA/MFA Acting for Stage and Screen at the University of East London. She holds a Ph.D. from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). She is the chair of the Acting Program at the Association for Theater in Higher Education (ATHE) and a convener of the Performer Training working group at the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA).

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