Alan Filewod
Biographic Data
| ID | 1451201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Filewod |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Filewod |
| SIGNATURE | FILEWOD A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Five by Five
Robert Lepage / Ex Machina
Reviewed by: Robert Lepage / Ex Machina: Revolutions in Theatrical Space by James Reynolds Alan Filewod ROBERT LEPAGE / EX MACHINA: REVOLUTIONS IN THEATRICAL SPACE. By James Reynolds. Engage series. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2019; pp. 256. The “revolutions” in the title of this exhaustively researched study refer at first glance to the immense impact Robert Lepage has had on international theatre culture through the works he has produced …
The Experience Being My Own
Some 630,000 Canadian soldiers served in the Great War between 1914 and 1919, of whom fewer than two thousand are known to have published some form of life
Radical Theatrics
Reviewed by: Radical Theatrics: Put-ons, Politics and the Sixties by Craig J. Peariso Alan Filewod Craig J. Peariso, Radical Theatrics: Put-ons, Politics and the Sixties (Seattle: University of Washington Press 2014) At the time I write this review, Donald Trump is bellowing his way along the campaign trail and edging closer to the presidency. As his campaign gained momentum over the fall, media pundits who had courted him – and fed his craving f…
An Advance to New
This case study of shifting modernisms in Toronto's Theatre of Action (1936-40) argues that the canonizing tendency to refer to modernism as a singularity plasters over its multiple, contradictory, and contested origins, and maps a genealogical narrative onto the capitals of imperial colonialism. The Theatre of Action's negotiations, from its origins in the revolutionary modernism of agit-prop and workers' theatre, through its promotion of discip…
Post-Colonial Drama
Reviewed by: Post-Colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics, and: An Introduction to Post-Colonial Theatre Alan Filewod Post-colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics. By Helen Gilbert and Joanne Tompkins. London: Routledge, 1996; pp. ix + 344. $69.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. An Introduction to Post-colonial Theatre. By Brian Crow with Chris Banfield. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996; pp. xiv + 186. $49.95 cloth, $16.95 paper. Postcoloni…
Lampe Responds to Kitazawa
Receiving Aboriginality
Recent developments in aboriginal playwriting and performance in the cultures of the so-called settler colonies (particularly Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States) challenge critical strategies by which mainly white scholars synthesize cultural histories.' In particular we are faced with the challenge of understanding our complicity in the historical processes of colonization which have suppressed aboriginal responses-both by repr…
Erasing Historical Difference
lenge to an established mainstream informs the most common perception of modern Canadian history. It is inscribed in critical discourse, in the funding policies and assessment procedures of the federal and provincial arts councils, in the rhetoric of the theatres and, for most of its history, in the editorial analysis of the Canadian Theatre Review. By questioning the critical paradigm of I wish to suggest a need to reappraise the ideological for…
Receiving Aboriginality
Recent developments in aboriginal playwriting and performance in the cultures of the so-called settler colonies (particularly Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States) challenge critical strategies by which mainly white scholars synthesize cultural histories.' In particular we are faced with the challenge of understanding our complicity in the historical processes of colonization which have suppressed aboriginal responses-both by repr…
Erasing Historical Difference
lenge to an established mainstream informs the most common perception of modern Canadian history. It is inscribed in critical discourse, in the funding policies and assessment procedures of the federal and provincial arts councils, in the rhetoric of the theatres and, for most of its history, in the editorial analysis of the Canadian Theatre Review. By questioning the critical paradigm of I wish to suggest a need to reappraise the ideological for…
Lampe Responds to Kitazawa
Receiving Aboriginality
Recent developments in aboriginal playwriting and performance in the cultures of the so-called settler colonies (particularly Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States) challenge critical strategies by which mainly white scholars synthesize cultural histories.' In particular we are faced with the challenge of understanding our complicity in the historical processes of colonization which have suppressed aboriginal responses-both by repr…
Post-Colonial Drama
Reviewed by: Post-Colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics, and: An Introduction to Post-Colonial Theatre Alan Filewod Post-colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics. By Helen Gilbert and Joanne Tompkins. London: Routledge, 1996; pp. ix + 344. $69.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. An Introduction to Post-colonial Theatre. By Brian Crow with Chris Banfield. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996; pp. xiv + 186. $49.95 cloth, $16.95 paper. Postcoloni…
An Advance to New
This case study of shifting modernisms in Toronto's Theatre of Action (1936-40) argues that the canonizing tendency to refer to modernism as a singularity plasters over its multiple, contradictory, and contested origins, and maps a genealogical narrative onto the capitals of imperial colonialism. The Theatre of Action's negotiations, from its origins in the revolutionary modernism of agit-prop and workers' theatre, through its promotion of discip…
Radical Theatrics
Reviewed by: Radical Theatrics: Put-ons, Politics and the Sixties by Craig J. Peariso Alan Filewod Craig J. Peariso, Radical Theatrics: Put-ons, Politics and the Sixties (Seattle: University of Washington Press 2014) At the time I write this review, Donald Trump is bellowing his way along the campaign trail and edging closer to the presidency. As his campaign gained momentum over the fall, media pundits who had courted him – and fed his craving f…
The Experience Being My Own
Some 630,000 Canadian soldiers served in the Great War between 1914 and 1919, of whom fewer than two thousand are known to have published some form of life
Robert Lepage / Ex Machina
Reviewed by: Robert Lepage / Ex Machina: Revolutions in Theatrical Space by James Reynolds Alan Filewod ROBERT LEPAGE / EX MACHINA: REVOLUTIONS IN THEATRICAL SPACE. By James Reynolds. Engage series. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2019; pp. 256. The “revolutions” in the title of this exhaustively researched study refer at first glance to the immense impact Robert Lepage has had on international theatre culture through the works he has produced …
Five by Five
Art (9 works) · History (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Canadian Identity and History (3 works) · Drama (3 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works)