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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464939603321

Autore

Freeman John <1959->

Titolo

Blood, sweat & theory / / John Freeman ; Helen Taylor, cover design

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Libri Publishing] : , : [Faringdon, England], , 2009

©2009

ISBN

1-907471-84-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Collana

Music + Performing Arts

Disciplina

PN1576

Soggetti

Performing arts - Research

Experimental theater

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; Preface; Abstracts of Case Studies; Section 1: Ineffability;  Illustration and the Intentional Action Model; Case Study: Returning to Haifa: Using Pre-text Based Drama to Understand Self and Other; Section 2: Paradigms and Trojan Horses; Case Study: Towards Collaborativity in Theatre-making: Reflections on an Artistic Research Case; Section 3: Origins of the PhD and the Current Educational Climate; Case Study: The Smell of It: Case Study of Curious's Live Art Performance On the Scent

Section 4: Certainties and Institutional Bias: Research for, into and through Practice Research Criteria and Creative Intelligence; Case Study: The Relationship between University Theatre and Professional Theatre: A Question of Method; Section 5: Basic, Applied and Experimental Research;  10 Questions; Case Study: That Spot in the 'Moving Picture' is You: Perception in Time-based Art; Section 6: Feelings and Findings;  Research Design, Research Prerequisites and Creative Processes; Case Study: Bleeding Narratives; Section 7: Methodologies;  Thesis Statements;  Fallibilism;  PhD Outcomes

Performance StudiesCase Study: A Mono-trilogy on a Collaborative Process in the Performing Arts; Section 8: Practice as Research as the Dominant Orthodoxy;  the Nature of Evidence; Case Study: Performing with Trees: Landscape and Artistic Research; Section 9: Heuristic



Research;  Autoethnography;  Immediacy and Self-Reflexivity; Case Study: Un-telling Myself: Performance (Preparation) as Research; Section 10: Truth and Doubt;  Epistemology and Ontology;  Thesis Demands; Case Study: In Tränen unendlicher Lust: An Artistic Inquiry into an Innovating Audiovisual Lied Project

Section 11: At the Crossroads of Research Cultures Type A, B and C Research; Case Study: Partly Cloudy, Chance of Rain; Section 12: Mode 1 and Mode 2 Research;  Dissemination;  Professional Doctorates;  Qualitative Issues; Case Study: Corpo, Carne e Espírito: Musical Visuality of the Body; Section 13: Theory and Theories;  Thesis Proposals and Thesis Development;  Explicit, Delayed Completion, Assembled and Inferred Knowledge;  the Perspective from Research Students;  Hockney's Secret Knowledge;  25 Questions; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

As a major contribution to the field of postgraduate activity in drama, theater, and performance, this resource identifies the essential characteristics of practice-based research across a range of countries, contexts, forms, and applications. A vital theory-based guide to such study, topics include locating practice-based research within historical, aesthetic, and educational settings; challenging received ideas of dramatic practice as thesis; distinguishing research from reflection and feelings from findings; and pushing practice-based re