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Thinking Through Script Analysis
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Focus Item #: 03614
Author(s): Suzanne Burgoyne & Patricia Downey
ISBN: 978-1-58510-361-4
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Description Burgoyne and Downey have produced a text which is a modern rethinking for the course in the theater curriculum called script analysis. It employs much modern thinking about the process of student thinking and develops analytical, creative and critical thinking for students through the process of script analysis. The approach means that this course, an essential one for theater majors, also develops critical thinking skills based on theatrical concerns that can be of high interest to non theater majors. As such, this book provides a course that can fulfill requirements in those schools that provide or require courses that employ critical thinking or writing across the curriculum. While doing so, it provides theatre artists with the skills they need to understand better the scripts they're staging.
Reviews
The real strength of this book is the focus on developing critical and creative thinking by making the process of script analysis enjoyable. The authors make analysis understandable. Students will be able to apply the skills they learn to other aspects of life and study.
—Robin D. Stone
Associate Professor of Theatre, Roger Williams University
This book will be of primary help for student actors who want to understand how to analyze their roles effectively in the context of the entire play – no small feat! The definition and terminology used in Chapter 4 for the Root Action Statements will assist theatre artists who want to synthesize and summarize the meaning and power of a play.
—Dr. Harry Parker
Chair, Department of Theatre, Texas Christian University
....this book illustrates an important approach to helping students more deeply master some key goals of undergraduate education: close reading, critical thinking, effective writing, productive group work and “mental management.” Readers will find it interesting to see how these themes and tools are applied throughout the book.
—Craig E. Nelson
Emeritus Professor, Indiana University at Bloomington |
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