Comparative drama/performance: contemporary representations and performances of gender
| Title | ΣΥΓΚΡΙΤΙΚΗ ΔΡΑΜΑΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ/ΠΑΡΑΣΤΑΣΙΟΛΟΓΙΑ: ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΕΣ ΑΝΑΠΑΡΑΣΤΑΣΕΙΣ ΚΑΙ ΕΠΙΤΕΛΕΣΕΙΣ ΦΥΛΟΥ / Comparative drama/performance: contemporary representations and performances of gender |
| Code | ΔΡ0209 |
| Faculty | Fine Arts |
| School | Drama |
| Cycle / Level | 1st / Undergraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter/Spring |
| Coordinator | Maria Fragkou |
| Common | Yes |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600021690 |
Programme of Study: PPS Tmīmatos THeátrou (2019-sīmera)
Registered students: 30
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KORMOS | Elective Courses belonging to the selected specialization | 8 | 4 | 5 |
| Dramatología-Parastasiología | Elective Course belonging to the selected specialization (Elective Specialization Course) | 8 | 4 | 5 |
| Ypokritikī | Elective Course belonging to the selected specialization (Elective Specialization Course) | 8 | 4 | 5 |
| Skīnografía-Endymatología | Elective Course belonging to the selected specialization (Elective Specialization Course) | 8 | 4 | 5 |
| Skīnothesía | Elective Course belonging to the selected specialization (Elective Specialization Course) | 8 | 4 | 5 |
| Academic Year | 2023 – 2024 |
| Class Period | Spring |
| Faculty Instructors | |
| Class ID | 600249091
|
Course Type 2021
Specialization / Direction
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600249091
- At the Website of the School: https://www.thea.auth.gr/undergraduate-studies/study-guide/
- eLearning (Moodle): https://elearning.auth.gr/course/view.php?id=17489
Language of Instruction
- Greek (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
After the successful completion of the module students will be able to:
* apply current interdisciplinary theories focusing on gender to dramatic texts and performances
*understand and evaluate different aspects of gender identity in contemporary society and how these connect to the theatre
*understand and evaluate the variety of contemporary artistic practice in relation to gender
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
- Work autonomously
- Work in an interdisciplinary team
- Generate new research ideas
- Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
- Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
The module focuses on the ways in which gender identity is performed and reproduced in contemporary world theatre. We will study dramatic texts and performances focusing on gender and sexuality, the deconstruction of the dramatic canon, precarious masculinity through the lens of feminist and queer theory. Examples studied include Travis Alabanza, Katie Mitchell and Έλλη Παπακωνσταντίνου among others.
Keywords
gender, feminism, intersectionality, queer identities, contemporary theatre
Educational Material Types
- Slide presentations
- Multimedia
- Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Laboratory Teaching
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Description
Study material includes power point presentations available on moodle, theoretical and dramatic texts and video projections.
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 40 | 1.6 | ✓ | ||
| Reading Assigment | 57 | 2.3 | ✓ | ||
| Written assigments | 28 | 1.1 | ✓ | ||
| Other / Others | |||||
| Total | 125 | 5 |
Student Assessment
Description
Students will be evaluated by means of an individual 3,500 word written essay.
Student Assessment methods
- Written Assignment (Summative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
1. Αθηνά Αθανασίου (επιμ.), Φεμινιστική θεωρία και πολιτισμική κριτική. Νήσος, Αθήνα 2006.
2. Pierre Bourdieu, Η ανδρική κυριαρχία, μτφ. Έφη Γιαννοπούλου. Πατάκης, Αθήνα 2007.
3. Judith Butler, Αναταραχή φύλου. Ο φεμινισμός και η ανατροπή της ταυτότητας, μτφ. Κώστας Καράμπελας. Αλεξάνδρεια, Αθήνα 2009.
4. Κωνσταντίνος Κυριακός, Ομοερωτισμός και ελληνική σκηνή: από το “Αιρετικόν Πάθος” στην “Ορατότητα”, Παπαζήση, Αθήνα 2021.
5. Δήμητρα Μακρυνιώτη (επιμ.), Τα ΄Ορια του Σώματος. Διεπιστημονικές Προσεγγίσεις, Νήσος, Αθήνα 2004.
6. Έλση Σακελλαρίδου, Σύγχρονο γυναικείο θέατρο. Από τη μετα/μπρεχτική στη μετα/φεμινιστική αναπαράσταση, Εκδόσεις Επίκεντρο, Αθήνα 2012.
Additional bibliography for study
Αστρινάκη Ράνια, Ποθητή Χαντζαρούλα και Αθηνά Αθανασίου, Μελέτες για το φύλο στην
ανθρωπολογία και την ιστορία. Εκδόσεις Αλεξάνδρεια, Αθήνα, 2011.
Cixous Hélène, ‘Aller à la Mer’, Modern Drama, 27.4 (1984): 546-8.
Case Sue-Ellen, Feminism and Theatre, επανέκδοση με εισαγωγή από Elaine Aston, Palgrave, Basingstoke 2008.
Foucault Michel, Επιτήρηση και τιμωρία. Η γέννηση της φυλακής, μτφ. Τάσος Μπετζέλος, Εκδόσεις Πλέθρον, Αθήνα 2011.
Foucault Michel, Ιστορία της σεξουαλικότητας (πρώτος τόμος). Η βούληση για γνώση, μτφ. Τάσος Μπετζέλος, Εκδόσεις Πλέθρον, Αθήνα 2011.
Fragkou Marissia, ‘Affected by Discomfort. Class and Precarity in Twenty-First Century Theatre,’ στο: Re-Imagining Class, επιμ. Michiel Rhys και Liesbeth Francois, University of Leuven Press, Leuven 2024 (υπό έκδοση).
Phelan Peggy, Unmarked. Τhe Politics of Performance, Λονδίνο, Routledge 1993.
Rapi Nina, ‘Hide and seek: the search for a lesbian theatre aesthetic,’ New Theatre Quarterly, 9.34 (1993): 147-158.
Ρόζη Λίνα, «Διευρύνοντας τους τόπους των έμφυλων ταυτοτήτων στη σύγχρονη ελληνική
δραματουργία: η δημιουργική επίδραση της κουίρ θεωρίας», Σκηνή 11 (2019): 7-19.
https://ejournals.lib.auth.gr/skene/article/view/7867/7628
Schneider Rebecca, The Explicit Body in Performance, Routledge, Λονδίνο 1997.
Last Update
13-05-2024
