Representation and Reception: Brechtian 'Pedagogics of Theatre' and Critical Thinking

Cover
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Poetics and Politics of
Representation and Reception
	The Learning Play
	Pleasure/Instruction
	Past/Present
	Sign, Myth, and Meaning
	Orientalism: Representation of the Other
	Representing Africa
	Aura and Authenticity
	Brecht and Derrida
	Burney’s 3-R Pedagogy
	New Media Technologies and Representation
	Chapters
	References
Chapter One: Bertolt Brecht’s “Pedagogics of Theatre”: Image, Ideology, and Meaning
	Ideology
	Mimesis and Semiosis
	Seeing and Doing
	Everyday Theatre
	Theatre as Event
	Selective Inattention
	Theatre and Sports
	“Epic Theatre Is the Modern Theatre”
	Brecht and Piscator
	Brecht’s Grand Design
	Montage
	References
Chapter Two: A Theatre with Footnotes: Diacritics and Referentiality/Witnessing and Learning
	Underlining Pedagogy
	Punctuating Theatre
	Acting in Quotation Marks
	Witnessing and Learning
	Witnessing as Knowing
	The Learning-play: Witnessing and Voting
	References
Chapter Three: “The Pregnant Moment”: Ideality, Gestus, and Tableau as Learning
	Brecht and Eisenstein
	Gestus as the Pedagogic Moment
	Ostension as Inference of Meaning
	Gesture as Intentionality
	Subjectivity
	Instant Re-play
	The Conception and the Reality
	The Berliner Ensemble’s Performances
	Brecht as Classical Avant-gardism?
	Deconstructing the East/West Dichotomy
	The Intervention of the “Art of Living”
	References
Chapter Four: Theatre as Metaphor of the Street: Brecht in the Basthi Across the Seas
	Non-literate Working-class Audience
	The Exception and the Rule
	The Discourse of Theatre
	The Production
	Song, Music, and Dance
	The Reception
	Ethnography of Audiences and Reception
	Complex Seeing
	Banjara Hills
	References
Chapter Five: Rethinking/Replaying/ Re-Cognition: My 3-R Pedagogy for Critical Thinking
	What Is Critical Thinking?
	Critical Thinking and Education
	My 3-R Pedagogy
	Rethinking
	Replaying
	Re-cognition
	References
Afterword: The Possibility of Critical Thinking: Bringing the World to the Classroom
	References
About the Author
Index