In:
Modern Drama, University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress), Vol. 39, No. 4 ( 1996-12-01), p. 585-598
Abstract:
In a recent double issue of Performing Arts Journal (50/51), entitled "The Arts and the University," Bonnie Marranca, the journal's co-creator and coeditor with Gautam Dasgupta, penned a provocative survey of the numerous lacunae in theatre studies as practiced throughout the United States. Her essay, "Theatre and the University at the End of the Twentieth Century," adds up to a detailed medical examination of the body politic of various curricula. Marranca points out that theatre in America "lacks a definable epistemology." She goes on to diagnose the ills of an education which has been unable to formulate a well-established critical discourse on the history and nature of this art. Such is not the case, she declares, for Film, Literature, Anthropology, Communications and Media Studies. In her “J'accuse," Marranca calls theatre "a champion of the status quo"
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0026-7694
,
1712-5286
Language:
English
Publisher:
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
Publication Date:
1996
SSG:
9,3
SSG:
7,24
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