Search for dissertations about: "theatre actors"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the words theatre actors.

2. 1. Action Reconsidered. Cognitive Aspects of the Relation between Script and Scenic Action

   Author : Erik Rynell; Lunds universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Theatre; cognition; embodied cognition; acting; avantgarde theatre; new theatre;

   Abstract : Contemporary cognitive science challenges the idea about the human brain as a kind of computor. Instead the importance of the body for our way to understand and interact with the world has come into focus. READ MORE

4. 2. Scenography in Action : Space, Time and Movement in Theatre Productions by Ingmar Bergman

   Author : Magdalena Holdar; Margaretha Rossholm-Lagerlöf; Hans Hayden; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; scenography; set design; theatre design; performance studies; scenography analysis; theatre space; Ingmar Bergman; Art; Konstvetenskap;

   Abstract : Developments in technology and new aesthetic idioms in the past decades have changed the preconditions for the scenographer’s work in the theatre. Therefore, it has become problematic indeed to describe scenography as the sum of costume and set, although this continues to be the common definition of the concept. READ MORE

5. 3. Rehearsing Emotions : The Process of Creating a Role for the Stage

   Author : Stina Bergman Blix; Göran Ahrne; Patrik Aspers; Helena Flam; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; role theory; stage actors; theatre; emotion work; emotional labour; shame; deep acting; surface acting; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : This thesis takes as its starting point the dramaturgical metaphor of the world as a stage, which is used in sociological role theories. These theories often presume what stage acting is about in order to use it as a simile for every day acting. READ MORE

6. 4. Interacting : Coordinating text understanding in a student theatre production

   Author : Martin Göthberg; Högskolan Dalarna; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Arts education; literature education; theatre education; text understanding; role-taking; character work; video analysis; Education and Learning; Utbildning och lärande; Arts education; literature education; theatre education; text understanding; role-taking; character work; video analysis;

   Abstract : The present dissertation explores student actors’ and their teachers’ coordination of text understanding in a theatre production – a two-semester process from page to stage in an upper secondary school in Sweden. With an interest in the collaborative work achieved in and through theatre education the research is realized against a background of the role of arts education and reading of literary texts in the neoliberal educational landscape that favors measurable effects of individual achievements. READ MORE

7. 5. To mourn and resist stigma : Narration, meaning-making and self-formation after a parent’s suicide

   Author : Anneli Silvén Hagström; Margareta Hydén; Ulla Forinder; Robert Neimeyer; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Grief; identity; Internet; narrative; stigma; suicide; theatre; youth; Identitet; Internet; narrativ; självmord; sorg; stigma; teater; ungdomar;

   Abstract : Grief following a parent’s suicide has been called ‘the silent grief’: due to a prevailing stigma connected to suicide as a mode of death, the parent cannot be talked about. This silenced or distorted communication complicates grieving youths’ meaning reconstruction centred on the question of why the parent committed suicide – a question inevitably linked to queries of who the deceased parent was, and that ultimately triggers thoughts about who oneself has become in the light of this experience. READ MORE