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The Autistic Stage

How Cognitive Disability Changed 20th-Century Performance

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Authors:
  1. Telory Davies Arendell

    1. Missouri State University, USA

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  • Through discussions of theory and practice, Telory D. Arendell acknowledges the impact that Cognitive Disability in general and Autism in particular have had on the performing arts community in the United States from 1970 to our current times
  • This is a book for those who have a stake in and curiosity about the relationship between autism and the stage
  • This work is meant to cover a range of issues and reach out to audiences, critics, professionals and parents who want to know more about performance representations of autism

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Thinking Spatially, Speaking Visually

    • Telory Davies Arendell
    Pages 1-14

  3. Behold, Chekhov Lizardbrain

    • Telory Davies Arendell
    Pages 15-26

  4. The Wanderer

    • Telory Davies Arendell
    Pages 27-47

  5. Autistic Techne

    • Telory Davies Arendell
    Pages 49-60

  6. Disney Dialogues

    • Telory Davies Arendell
    Pages 61-70

  7. Arts Therapy for Autism

    • Telory Davies Arendell
    Pages 71-85

  8. Faces of Autism

    • Telory Davies Arendell
    Pages 87-90

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 91-93
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About this book

This is a book for those who have a stake in and curiosity about the relationship between autism and the stage. Performance here covers theatre to therapy, film to biography, art and beyond. If you are a theater or film critic, a speech or drama therapist, a higher education specialist or special education instructor, a parent of a child on the autism spectrum or an individual with ASD interested in theatre, this book may hold unique value for you. This work is meant to cover a range of issues and reach out to audiences, critics, professionals and parents who want to know more about performance representations of autism. One message reverberates throughout the book: each autistic person illustrates different approaches to and perspectives on life. We become richer each time we come to understand these new perspectives and performance powerfully enhances our understanding of them. Autism Spectrum Disorders include alternative modes of processing information, recording images, discoursing with others, and interpreting social scenes. In this conversation, performance can function as an analytical lens, a representational space, a means of perceptual innovation, and a therapeutic tool. The definition of autism as a disorder has evolved from its first diagnosis in the 1940s to our current frame of reference with several key revisions. These three categories—interaction, communication, and perseveration—underlie any published study of those on the autism spectrum. What has shifted in recent years is an approach to disability that positions autism as a social construction rather than a medical problem.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Missouri State University, USA

    Telory Davies Arendell

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Autistic Stage

  • Book Subtitle: How Cognitive Disability Changed 20th-Century Performance

  • Authors: Telory Davies Arendell

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-181-6

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-181-6Published: 30 October 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVIII, 94

  • Topics: Education, general

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