Keeping it real
Subtitle: drama, masculinity, and performance
By: by Philip D. Lortie.
Published: 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 106
Subjects: Masculinity.; Masculinity in art.; Sex role in art.; Drama in education.; High school students.; Boys.
Other titles: Drama, masculinity, and performance.
Description: Current scholarship in drama/theatre, ethnography, and gender has found great inspiration in the performative, that is, the spontaneous, repetitive, and incomplete gestures and acts that constitute our everyday lives. The present work operates within this field of inquiry to examine what potential there is in drama education to open up alternative masculine performances for high school boys. This autoethnography, conceived of as a performance in which the reader is positioned as a co-creator, is based upon the author's experiences as a student, actor, teacher, and researcher and offers critical insights into the relational, historical, and discursive aspects of masculine performances, and the possibility for imaginative role play to productively engage with hegemonic masculinity. Drama, as a marginal space within most schools, is seen as providing a stage for liberatory practice, a refuge and forum for boys whose masculine performances challenge aspects of the dominant gender order.
Notes: Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-106)

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