Ashton Eleazer

Professor Lithgow ENGL 105i

October 29, 2015

I am interested in researching how theater effects human psychology because I want to

find out how being invested in a live production can effect the subconscious of an
audience in order to help my reader understand how the theater can influence and change
perceptions of the world.
1. “Psychology of Theater Audiences” Clayton Hamilton. This article is about the
minds of those in a crowd.
2. “Setting the stage for social change: Using live theater to dispel myths about
intimate partner violence.” Dill Shackleford. This article is about how theater can
be used to create social change as in specifically with partner violence.
3. “The theatre of trauma: American modernist drama and the psychological
struggle for the American mind “ Michael Cotsell. This book is contains relations
of Freud and well known playwrights as well as the psychological effects used in
productions.
4. “Theater of the psyche: The emergence of Embodied Theater Ecology and the
stage as Home(be)coming.” Kirsten Allen. This book explores how the production
of “She Myth” effects audiences and does a study to understand how it affects the
minds of the audience members.
5. “Psychodrama grounded in the perspective of analytical psychology.” Ellynor
Barz. This article talks about the decreasing emphasis on external events in
comparison with the benefits of inner psychic processes in theater.

I am interested in researching how theater communicates universal understanding

because I want to find out how audience interaction with the actors and another in a space
can effect their take away of the message in order to help my reader understand how
theater is a more effective art form than other medias.
1. “Theatre a most effective form of art, says Guha” This article does exactly
what the title says. It is unique as it is published in New Delhi which can
convey the universal aspect of theater in other places.
2. “The necessity of theater : the art of watching and being watched” by Paul
Woodruff explains the world wide context importance of theater examining
both the audience and the actors and how it is necessary to human life as a
means of communication.
3. “The Empty Space” by Peter Brooks talks about the different aspects of
theater and how theater can be used in negative and positive ways along with
it being the best form of communication through art from the experience we
receive from it.
4. “Theater, Communication and Development” by Susweta Bose discusses how
theater has developed through time as a mode of communication.
5. “Scrap Mettle SOUL: Learning to Create Social Change at the Intersection of
Differences Through Community Performance Theater.” Bette Donoho
analyzes a specific type of community and how it affects audiences.
Things im interested in:
Religion
Theater
Psychology
Journalism
Teaching
Children
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I am interested in researching the portrayal of women in the Middle East and less
developed societies versus Western culture because I want to find out why these different
cultures view women differently in order to help my reader understand the origins of
feminism.
1. “Helping U.S. Students think of gendered power relations in a worldwide
context” Hilary Lips. This article compares international relations of woman in
these two different societies to help clarify how human social behavior is shaped
in different power relationships.
2. “No Heroes: Woman as Crime and Criminal, Betrayer and Betrayed in Their Own
Stories. Women's Voices in the Twentieth Century” Darcy Howe. This
dissertation compares different writers from different backgrounds across the
world and compares their treatment as well as views on the society in which they
live.
3. “Images of women: the portrayal of women in photography of the Middle East,
1860-1950” Sarah Brown. This book explains how women in the Middle East are
used in photography.
4. "We All Want the Same Things Basically": Feminism in Arab Women's
Literature.” Susan Darraj. She discusses the portrayal of woman in Middle
Eastern literature and how the female consciousness emerged.
5. “Communality sells: The impact of perceivers' sexism on the evaluation of
women's portrayals in advertisements.” Janine Bosak. This article discusses
western photography of women and gender stereotypes.
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