Corporeal knowledge and pleasure in theatre research: The case of looking at theatre photographs

Tang, Cheong W A

Title: Corporeal knowledge and pleasure in theatre research: The case of looking at theatre photographs
Creator: Tang, Cheong W A
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2007
Date: 2007
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/468606
Identifier: vital:77096
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1080/10137548.2007.9687865
Description: In the context of current efforts at establishing a national framework for recognizing practice as research, a window of opportunity seems to be open for discussions on the nature of research, and indeed the nature of knowledge, in theatre studies. This paper is a contribution toward articulating at once a methodological and an epistemological concern: it provides an overview of the methods in which photographs have been used as sources of data in research; it also attempts to articulate and argue for a particular understanding of the nature of theatre knowledge as corporeal, and how this may impact on research methodology, specifically in terms of using photographs. By intervening in theoretical assumptions of what is legitimate theatre knowledge, the paper ultimately attempts to contribute to laying the theoretical groundwork for the acceptance of practice as research. As Ball and Smith argue, ‘the theoretical framework sets an agenda for the types of researchable questions that can be addressed’ (1992: 3); conversely, to expand the types of researchable questions that are possible in the field of theatre, theoretical frameworks that legitimise practice as knowledge should be articulated (or re-articulated), and this is one such attempt.
Format: 12 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: South African Theatre Journal
Relation: Tang, A. (2007). Corporeal knowledge and pleasure in theatre research: The case of looking at theatre photographs. South African Theatre Journal, 21(1), 241–252. https://doi.org/10.1080/10137548.2007.9687865
Relation: South African Theatre Journal volume 21 number 1 241 252 2007 2163-7660
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