Chapter 1: History on film. Chapter 2: To see the past. Chapter 3: Mainstream drama. Chapter 4: Innovative drama. Chapter 5: Documentary. Chapter 6: Telling lives. Chapter 7: Film maker/historian. Chapter 8: Engaging the discourse. Chapter 9: Film on history.
This paper presents a qualitative exploration of the representation of the causes, manifestations, and healing strategies of psychiatric conditions in Mari Kushinga, a contemporary Zimbabwean drama. Mental health challenges remain a pressing concern in present-day Zimbabwe, where increasing numbers of individuals exhibit symptoms of psychiatric distress. However, the underlying causes of these conditions often remain undiagnosed or are ambiguously interpreted, leading to uncertainty about appropriate therapeutic interventions. While many families turn to biomedical or postmodern methods of treatment, such as psychotropic medication, clinical counselling, and psychiatric institutionalisation, traditional explanatory models and healing systems continue to exert significant influence within communities. Drawing on Mari Kushinga (2024), a drama performed by ZIYA Cultural Arts Trust, popularly known as Vharazipi, this study interrogates how artistic performance mediates cultural understandings of mental illness. Anchored in the theoretical frameworks of postmodernism, psychiatry, and Afrocentricity, the analysis reveals that greed and the pursuit of ill-got wealth (kuromba/ukuthwala) are dramatised as principal causes of psychic disintegration. The drama further portrays traditional healing systems as central to restoring individual and communal equilibrium. The paper argues that Mari Kushinga serves not only as a mirror of contemporary Zimbabwean society but also as a critical site for negotiating the interface between indigenous epistemologies and modern psychiatric discourse.
O presente artigo busca mostrar como as filosofias da arte de Peter Szondi e Peter Bürger retornam a Hegel em busca de um fundamento dialético para a historicização de conceitos estéticos da arte contemporânea. A dialética forma-conteúdo de Hegel permite a Szondi e Bürger compreender a evolução da arte contemporânea em prol da transformação da forma da arte em seu conteúdo sedimentado. Em Szondi tal transformação se evidencia historicamente a partir do drama moderno e se concretiza no teatro épico, enquanto em Bürger ela pode ser observada na arte vanguardista, a partir de sua crítica imanente à arte orgânica. Em seu final, o artigo esboça ainda algumas consequências dessa teoria para a crítica de arte brasileira, particularmente de Antonio Candido e Roberto Schwarz.
TÁR (2022) retrata uma fase da vida de uma maestrina, Lydia Tár, da Orquestra Sinfónica de Berlim, na sua atitude perante a arte que domina, como autora; na sua profissão, como maestrina; na sua vida pessoal, como mulher e na sua relação com os outros. Impondo-se Lydia Tár numa estrutura vertical, essencialmente masculina, são apresentados a quem vê o filme, pelo autor do guião e realizador, Todd Field, um conjunto de aspetos que extravasam os da sua profissão como líder de uma orquestra, onde a predominância das chefias é também ela, maioritariamente masculina. Nesta análise crítica procuraremos, com ajuda de autores como Judith Butler, estabelecer um paralelo entre a realidade trabalhada nesta ficção e a realidade que o século XXI nos oferece.
Khadijeh Kaboli, Mohammad Reza Bardideh, Siamak Samani
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Abstract
The purpose of this research was the effectiveness of mentalization-based drama therapy on the sustained attention of children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. The research method was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design and follow-up with a control group. The statistical population of the research included all students aged 9 to 11 years old with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in Zanjan city in 2023. The sample size includes 30 subjects (15 subject in the experimental group and 15 subject in the control group) from the statistical population were selected by purposeful sampling and were placed in two control and experimental groups. For the experimental group, the developed drama-therapy package based on mentalization was implemented, while the control group remained on the waiting list. The research tools included Connors Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Questionnaire (2007) and integrated visual and auditory continuous performance test (1995). The results showed that the drama therapy package based on mentalization had a significant effect on improving sustained attention in the post-test and follow-up stages. The findings of this research provide useful information regarding the drama therapy package based on mentalization, and counselors and psychologists can use this intervention to improve sustained attention in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
Keywords: drama therapy, mentalization, emotion regulation, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
Extended Abstract
Introduction
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity (American Psychiatric Association, 2022). Sustained attention deficit is one of the major cognitive deficits of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder that continues into adulthood (Ge et al., 2013). Sustained attention is a key cognitive ability that enables people to maintain their focus, control stimuli, not be easily distracted, and it improves significantly during the development of a person (Gallen et al., 2023). Sustained attention functions are a necessary condition for other abilities; without sustained attention, critical information for a subsequent behavior cannot be represented in the mind and will not be processed, therefore, deficits in sustained attention hinder cognitive performance, such as learning and memory (Fortenbaugh et al., 2017).
Therefore, in order to solve attention deficits in this group of people, it is felt necessary to use multidimensional treatments, which are usually a combination of drug therapy, psychological counseling, school-oriented intervention, behavioral therapy, family therapy, and social sufficiency training. It is used according to the needs of the individual and the family (Biyati et al., 2012). In recent years, one of the new methods of therapy that has received attention in this regard is drama therapy (Frydman and Mayor, 2023). Drama-based intervention is a creative form of psychotherapy that promotes psychological growth and transformation through the systematic and deliberate use of drama and theater techniques (Jiang et al., 2023). Another therapeutic intervention that has been used in recent years to improve children's problems is the Mentalization based treatment (Darabi et al., 2022). The main focus of this approach is to help the client to bring his mental experiences to the level of consciousness and to perceive himself as an integrated whole, therefore the goal of the treatment is to grow and strengthen the capacity of mentalization through the therapeutic relationship and increase the capacity of the person to recognize thoughts and feelings. It is what experiences (Choi-Kain, 2022).
Considering the research findings and the negative impact of sustained attention deficit on the lives of children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, the use of appropriate interventions can lead to the improvement of these people's problems and significant changes in the way rehabilitation of people with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and on the other hand, looking at what has been reviewed, it can be said that play therapy and Mentalization based treatment solely on cognitive, emotional and behavioral components They are effective, but since adopting integrated and combined approaches is more efficient than single-factor approaches; Therefore, it seems that drama-therapy intervention based on mentalization can be more effective on children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of the effectiveness of drama-therapy intervention based on mentalization on the sustained attention of children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
Methodology
The research method was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design and follow-up with the control group. The statistical population of the research is students aged 9 to 11 years old with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder who were studying in Zanjan schools in the school year of 2023. Education consultants have received a diagnosis of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. For more accurate diagnosis, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder questionnaire was completed and a semi-structured clinical interview was conducted with children. Finally, among these children, a sample of 30 people was selected based on the entry criteria and then they were replaced in two experimental and control groups (15 experimental people, 15 control people). For the experimental group, the drama-therapy intervention based on mentalization was implemented, while the control group remained on the waiting list. The research tools included Connors Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Questionnaire and integrated visual and auditory continuous performance test.
Results
In Table 1, the descriptive statistics of the variable scores of the research are reported by groups.
Table 1. Descriptive statistics of research variables by groups
Variable
Group
Pre-test
Post-test
Follow-up
M
SD
M
SD
M
SD
visual attention
experimental
52.53
4.45
58.40
3.66
57.26
3.75
Control
53.40
3.83
52.27
3.88
53.47
3.37
auditory attention
experimental
48.13
4.62
53.86
3.75
52.73
3.93
Control
48.86
3.80
47.80
3.82
48.73
4.45
According to the average scores of the pre-test, post-test and follow-up, the average scores of the stable attention components of children in the experimental group have increased. But in the control group, the scores in all three courses are not significantly different. In order to analyze the data, the analysis of variance test with repeated measurements was used.
Table 2. Variance analysis with repeated measures to Tests of Within-Subjects and Between-Subjects effects
Variable
Source of changes
SS
df
MS
F
P
Eta
visual attention
Time
113.62
1.31
86.57
16.83
0.01
0.69
Time × group
190.55
1.31
145.19
105.67
0.01
0.79
Group
205.51
1
205.51
4.84
0.03
0.14
auditory attention
Time
104.42
1.60
65.26
42.60
0.01
0.60
Group
182.28
1.60
113.93
74.38
0.01
0.72
Time × group
217.77
1
217.77
4.98
0.03
0.15
The results of Table 2 show that the F level of the interaction effect of stages and group is significant (P<0.001). Also, examining the results of the Bonferroni test showed that, in the components of sustained attention, the average of the experimental group in the post-test and follow-up is significantly higher than the pre-test stage (P<0.01), while the difference between the post- The test and the follow-up phase are not significant (P>0.01); But in the control group, there is no difference between pre-test, post-test and follow-up (P>0.01). This finding means that the drama-therapy intervention based on mentalization not only led to the improvement of the components of sustained attention in the experimental group, but this effect was also stable in the follow-up phase.
Discussion
The results showed that the drama-therapy intervention based on mentalization on sustained attention of children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder is effective. In explaining this finding, it can be said that drama therapy uses the child's natural tendencies to perform activities, so it can easily examine the child's activities, behavior and feelings, a child who Having problems in expressing and correct tone of words, refuses to pay attention and answer, shows more enthusiasm and willingness to pay attention by using the show and in some cases volunteers for this work (Biyati et al., 2012). On the other hand, in most drama therapy activities, such as activities that put children in different situations and ask them to display their reactions, the child actually faces some kind of problem and investigates it. There are different ways to deal with it by using intellectual skills. Also, during the performance, children should recognize the plan of the play, re-express and adjust the dialogues and scenes of the play, evaluate and criticize their own and each other's scenes, analyze the components that comprise the whole work. think again about their scenes, practice them and perform them again according to the changes and rewrites. All these factors lead to the creation of decision-making skills, reasoning, thinking and, accordingly, attention capacity (Sabouri et al., 2015).
Conclusion
Considering the effectiveness of the drama-therapy intervention based on mentalization on the sustained attention of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, specialists and therapists should use this therapy package to improve the cognitive problems of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
Galeria w niniejszym tomie czasopisma jest nieco inna niż w numerach wcześniejszych. Nie zawiera fotografii – uznaliśmy bowiem, że bliższy tematom dystrybucji i widowni filmowej będzie plakat: jako ważny element promocji, a często przecież jako pierwszy obraz zawiązujący relację film – odbiorca. Chcieliśmy, by autorskie propozycje plakatów dotyczyły filmów, które z jakichś względów wyróżniają się pod względem dystrybucyjnym – zarówno z perspektywy historycznej, jak i współczesnej. Z tytułów starszych wybór padł na dwa polskie „półkowniki”: Przypadek Krzysztofa Kieślowskiego (1981/1987) i Kobietę samotną Agnieszki Holland (1981/1987). Z produkcji nowszych wskazaliśmy Romę Alfonso Cuaróna (2018) i Nie patrz w górę Adama McKaya (2021) – filmy w dużej mierze zawdzięczające swoją rozpoznawalność usłudze video-on-demand (w obu wypadkach reprezentowanej przez Netflix), która w ostatnim czasie tak silnie zmieniła pejzaż mediów audiowizualnych. Do współpracy zaprosiliśmy Uniwersytet Artystyczny im. Magdaleny Abakanowicz w Poznaniu. Studenckie projekty powstały w I Pracowni Plakatu, na Wydziale Grafiki i Komunikacji Wizualnej (prowadzący: prof. Grzegorz Marszałek, p.o. kierownik: dr Marcin Markowski). Prezentowane grafiki pokazują rozmaite sposoby potraktowania zadanego tematu, w mniejszym lub większym stopniu nawiązujące do fabuły lub dyskursu danego filmu.
This article aims to critically engage with Odin Teatret’s most recent addition to the repertoire, The Tree (2016), in order to investigate the ways in which Barba’s dramaturgical decision-making processes create a performance field that metaphorically comments on the status of the group today whilst critiquing contemporary geo-politics. Importantly, we argue that notions of interculturalism – which have often been employed by scholars to critique the Odin’s work – do not address the full complexity of the embodied concatenation of the group’s practice, and we employ the term interstitial to more effectively articulate the complex space produced by the group’s training and performances.
Built as a cartographic report, this article aims to give insight to the practical and conceptual procedures carried out during the research process that culminated in the scenic and musical creation of the show Uji – O Bom da Roda. Based on the cartographic method, we focus on encounters and contaminations produced between the theatrical universe and the roda de samba (samba circle) in its multiple expressive dimensions. Within a territory of creative frictions, Corporeal Mimesis presented itself as a fundamental element of articulation between music, body, scene and dramaturgy.
The image of Death, embodied in the image of a beautiful maiden, is considered in the article through the analysis of references in the novel diptych by B. Akunin The Mistress of Death and The Lover of Death (the Erast Fandorin series) to one of the most important primary sources, the drama by A. Blok The Little Show-Booth. The study shows that Akunin's method of deformation was replaced by a postmodern deconstruction with a splitting into two images, of Columbine and of Maiden-Death, each of which is dominated by one of the hypostases of the heroine of The Little Show-Booth. These transformations appeal in their development to the opposition in Akunin’s novels of two points of view on fate, dialectically interacting, which correlate with the adventurous exposition and with the inevitability of personal destiny idea, oriented towards the “classical” tradition. The result of the analysis is a new formula of the genre of Akunin's novels, since their poetics goes out of the ordinary framework of criminal literature, as a transgressive phenomenon in the field of mass literature, as postmodern novel, in which the uncertain intertextuality accentuates, align with plot details, the problem of heroes’ self-identity.
Literature (General), Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages
Na escrita deste ensaio compartilho minha experiência como docente substituta na Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, ministrando a disciplina de Consciência Vocal, no primeiro semestre de 2017. Relato o encontro com um estudante em específico e os desafios e memórias que o mesmo desdobra. Problematizo, a partir da narrativa desta experiência, as questões de gênero e a formação vocal do ator.
The article focuses on the penultimate novel of Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time, and attempts to interpret
it within the larger context of the author’s work. The author of the article argues that this novel
is by no means a deviation from Barnes’s course, set out in the previous novels, but rather a continuation
of topics he examined. The genre of a historical novel allows him to play out the drama of individual
versus death on a larger scale, represented by history. For this purpose, Barnes misreads the
life story of Dmitri Shostakovich, whom he portrays as an individual fighting the repressive system
by “internal emigration” and obsession with his own work.
Despite their rise in the social ladder, the newly emerging bourgeoisie of late medieval England needed to display their wealth not only to secure their place in the social hierarchy, but also to receive acceptance from noble people in their communities. Hence, the public and private lives of the medieval English bourgeoisie turned out to be arenas for social drama, as conceptualized by Victor Turner, in which their cooks and kitchens were important as backstage elements as exemplied by the cook of the Franklin and the Cook of the Guildsmen in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Therefore, this article aims at analysing Chaucer's depiction of the cooks in the Canterbury Tales, and to discuss their function in contributing to the social changes as gures at the backstage of bourgeois social drama. In line with this, this article argues that the cooks were indispensable for the medieval bourgeoisie to sustain their social drama through the use of food culture.
Sylvie Roques (Centre Edgar Morin – Paris, France, Université d’Evry – Évry, France)
This article presents a research for decade making cross the look on the expanding dramatic text of physical representations and the examination of current scenic forms where the presence of the body is undeniable. If it is impossible to limit the theater to the text, our position is that it is also impossible to escape it. The first part puts in perspective a textual analysis of a corpus of revealing contemporary texts a number of physical representations. The second part questions the flesh of the words because the word is a tangible materiality, a carrier of a particular originality. The third part is dedicated to the forms emerging performances on the European stages where the body acquires all its density and its strength.
Se describe primero la «prehistoria» católica del contacto entre los grupos panos de la actual Amazonía boliviana y los misioneros jesuitas, franciscanos y del clero secular. Luego se analiza la continuidad del proceso de evangelización de los chacobos por diversas denominaciones evangélicas, reflejada en tres experiencias misioneras desde 1955 hasta la actualidad. Por último, se proponen algunas reflexiones sobre el problema antropológico de la conversión religiosa.
Latin America. Spanish America, Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Ida Bagus Mugi Raharja ., Prof. Dr. Nyoman Dantes ., Putu Ari Dharmayanti, S.Pd. .
Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui penerapan teori konseling analisis transaksional dengan teknik sosiodrama meningkatkan rasa percaya diri siswa kelas VIII SMP Laboratorium Undiksha Singaraja tahun pelajaran 2014/2015. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian pra-eksperimen dengan rancangan penelitian one shot-case study. Populasi penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas VIII SMP Laboratoriu Undiksha Singaraja. Sampel penelitian ditentukan dengan menggunakan teknik purposive sampling yaitu penarikan sampel yang didasarkan pada ciri atau karakteristik yang ditetapkan oleh peneliti sebelumnya. Jumlah sampel dalam penelitian ini sebanyak 5 orang siswa kelas VIII yang terindentifikasi memiliki percaya diri rendah. Metode utama dalam pengumpulan data menggunakan kuesioner dan metode pendukung menggunakan Observasi. Berdasarkan hasil analisis, ditemukan bahwa konseling analisis transaksional dengan teknik sosiodrama efektif meningkatkan rasa percaya diri siswa. Hal ini dilihat dari hasil analisis thitung = 15,9 dan ttabel dengan df (db) = 4 dan taraf signifikasansi 5% adalah 2,132 sehingga diperoleh perbandingan thitung > ttabel (15,9 > 2,132). Dengan demikian, dapat disimpulkan bahwa konseling analisis transaksional dengan teknik sosiodrama efektif untuk meningkatkan percaya diri siswa.
Kata Kunci : analisis transaksional, sosiodrama, percaya diri.
The purpose of this study is to know the implementation counseling theory analysis transactional with socio drama technique enhance students self confidence of the eighth grade student of SMP Laboratorium Undiksha Singaraja academic years 2014/2015. This research is pre experiment research with research design one shot-case study. Research populations are eight grade students in SMP Laboratorium Undiksha Singaraja. Research sample determine using purposive sampling technique that sample taken by characteristic that determine by the researcher before. Total sample in this research are 5 students of eighth grades that identified has low self confidence. The main method in collecting data is using questioner and the other supporting method using observation. Based on analysis result, found that counseling transactional with socio drama technique was effective to enhance student self confident. It is seen from the analysis result thitung =15,9 and ttabel with df (db)=4 and extent of significance 5% is 2,132 so obtained comparison thitung > ttabel (15,9>2,132). With thus, can conclude that counseling analysis transactional using socio drama technique was effective for improve student self confidence.
keyword : analyzed transactional, sociodrama, self confidence.
Este artigo comenta a importância de August Strindberg para a dramaturgia do século XX, as principais características de sua obra e o que representa o surgimento de um gênero dramático inédito: a peça-sonho. O enredo da peça e seus símbolos mais importantes exemplificando as intenções do dramaturgo, a suas referências ao teatro medieval e o uso de alegorias. Como se deu a estreia de “Rumo a Damasco” e a visão de Strindberg sobre o teatro, além da recepção da crítica e montagens importantes que se seguiram.
A macroscopic trend in contemporary Israeli literature concerns the growing success and increase of women writers. Even in theatre - a genre which, in current Jewish culture, is new in many aspects -, many women dramatists are gaining considerable achievements. The incidence of this phenomenon may be valued in the light of some innovative contributions, such as the elaboration of various female - or feminist - themes. The dramatic writings of Edna Mazya are particularly eloquent if read according to this analysis. In this article we will deal with some of her literary topics, which recur especially in her drama Herod (May 2000): on the one hand, the biblical inspiration and the actualization of biblical features and Mazya's leitmotif, i.e. the representation of marginalized characters and their stories in contrast to the “main stream”.