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SELECTED
BIBLIOGRAPHY
compiled by Bill Koehnlein
1.
Books about the Theater of the Oppressed
A.
Books by Augusto Boal
Boal,
Augusto: Tres obras de teatro (Buenos Aires: Ediciones Noe, 1973)
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: Teatro del Oprimido (Buenos Aires: Ediciones de la Flor, 1974)
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: Tecnicas latinoamericanas de teatro popular (Buenos Aires: Ediciones
Corregidor, 1975; Mexico DF: Editorial Nueva Imagen, 1982)
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: 200 ejercios y juegos para el actor y para no actor con ganas de decir
algo a traves del teatro (Buenos Aires: Editorial Crisis, 1975)
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Milagre no Brasil (Lisbon: Platano Editora, 1976)
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: Cronicas de nuestra America (Rio de Janeiro: Editora Codera, 1977)
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: Deliciosa e sangrenta aventura Latina de Jane Spitfire, A (Rio de
Janeiro: Editora Codecri, 1977)
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: Murro em ponta de faca (Sao Paulo: Editora Hucitec, 1978)
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: Theatre de l'opprime (Paris: Editions Decourverte, 1978)
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: Theater of the Oppressed (New York: Urizen Books, 1979; London: Pluto
Press, 1979; New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1985)
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: Jeu pour acteurs et non-acteurs (Paris: Editions Decourverte, 1979)
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: Stop! C'est Magique! (Rio
de Janeiro: Civilizacao Brasilara, 1980)
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: Corsario do rei, O (Rio de Janeiro: Civilizacao Brasilara, 1985)
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: Teatro de Augusto Boal (Sao Paulo: Editora Hucitec, 1986)
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: L'Arc en ciel du desire (Paris: Editions Ramsay, 1990)
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: Games for Actors and Non-Actors (New York: Routledge, 1992)
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: Rainbow of Desire, The: The Boal Method of Theatre and Therapy (New
York: Routledge, 1995)
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: Aqui ninguem e burro! gracas e desgracas da vida carioca (Rio de
Janeiro, Editora Revan, 1996)
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: Legislative Theatre: Using Performance to Make Politics (New York:
Routledge, 1998)
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, and Gianfrancesco Guarnieri: Arena Conta Tiradentes (Sao Paulo:
Livraria Editora Sagrana, 1967)
B.
Books about the Theater of the Oppressed
Cohen-Cruz,
Jan, and Mady Schutzman: Playing Boal: Theater, Therapy and Activism
(New York; Routledge, 1994)
Feldhendler,
Daniel: Psychodrama und Theater der Unterdruckten (Frankfurt: Puppen
und Masken, 1987)
C.
Journals and periodicals
New
Art Examiner, February 2001
(contains an interview with Augusto Boal by Michael Agnew)
TDR:
The Drama Review, Volume 34 Number
3, Fall 1990 (contains articles about the Theater of the Oppressed by Augusto
Boal, Jan Cohen-Cruz, Richard Schechner and Mady Schutzman)
2.
Books about theater generally
Abel,
Lionel: Metatheatre: A New View of
Dramatic Form (New York: Hill and Wang, 1963)
Artaud,
Antonin: Theater and Its Double, The (New York: Grove Press, 1958)
Beck,
Julian: Life of the Theatre, The: The
Relation of the Artist to the Struggle of the People (San Francisco: City
Lights Books, 1972)
Bentley,
Eric: Brecht Memoir, The (New York: PAJ Publications, 1985)
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: Theory of the Modern Stage, The: An
Introduction to Modern Theatre and Drama (New York: Penguin Books, 1984)
Blau,
Herbert: Blooded Thought: Occasions of Theater (New York: Performing
Arts Journal Publications, 1982)
Brook,
Peter: Empty Space, The (New York:
Discus Books, 1972)
Brustein,
Robert: Revolution as Theatre: Notes on
the New Radical Style (New York: Liveright, 1971)
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: Theatre of Revolt, The: An Approach to
the Modern Drama (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1964)
Chaikin,
Joseph: Presence of the Actor, The: Notes on the Open Theater, Disguises,
Acting, and Repression (New York: Atheneum, 1980)
Greene,
Naomi: Antonin Artaud: Poet without Words (New York: Simon and
Schuster, 1970)
Grotowski,
Jerzy: Towards a Poor Theatre (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968)
Gutierrez
Alea, Tomas: Viewer's Dialectic, The (Havana: José Martí Publishing
House, 1988)
Himelstein,
Morgan Y.: Drama Was a Weapon: The Left-Wing Theatre in New York 1929—1941
(Westport: Greenwood Press, 1963)
Kirby,
E.T., ed.: Total Theatre: A Critical Anthology (New York: E.P. Dutton
and Company, 1969)
Lyon,
James K.: Bertolt Brecht in America
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980)
Martin,
Randy: Performance as Political Act: The Embodied Self (New York,
Westport and London: Bergin and Garvey Publishers, 1990)
Knapp,
Bettina L.: Antonin Artaud: Man of Vision (New York: Discus Books,
1971)
Malina,
Judith, and Julian Beck: Paradise Now: Collective Creation of the Living Theatre (New York:
Randon House, 1971)
Orenstein,
Gloria Feman: Theater of the Marvelous, The: Surrealism and the Contemporary Stage
(New York: New York University Press, 1975)
Pasolli,
Robert: Book on the Open Theatre, A
(New York: Avon Books, 1972)
Picher,
Marie-Claire A.: Spectacle et pouvoir: Vers une theorie de l'avant-garde
theatrale postmoderne [doctoral dissertation] (Ann Arbor: University
Microfilms International, 1989)
Piscator,
Erwin: The Political Theatre (New
York: Avon Books, 1978)
Pronko,
Leonard Cabell: Avant-Garde: The Experimental Theater in France (Berkeley and Los
Angeles: University of California press, 1964)
Roose-Evans,
James: Experimental Theatre: From Stanislavsky to Today (New York: Discus
Books, 1973)
Rostagno,
Aldo, with Julian Beck and Judith Malina: We,
The Living Theatre (New York: Ballantine Books, 1970)
Sainer,
Arthur: Radical Theatre Notebook, The
(New York: Discus Books, 1975)
van
Erven, Eugène: Radical People’s Theatre (Bloomington and
Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1988)
3.
Books about popular and alternative education and pedagogy
Ayers,
William C., and Janet L. Miller, eds.: A Light in Dark Times: Maxine Greene
and the Unfinished Conversation (New York and London: Teachers College
Press, 1998)
Barndt,
Deborah: To Change This House: Popular Education under the Sandinistas
(Toronto: Between the Lines, nd)
Bigelow,
William, and Norman Diamond: Power in Our Hands, The: A Curriculum on the
History of Work and Workers in the United States (New York: Monthly Review
Press, 1988)
Boyd,
Andrew: Activist Cookbook, The: Creative Actions for a Fair Economy
(Boston: United for a Fair Economy, 1999)
Castaño
Ferreira, Eleonora, and João Castaño Ferreira: Making Sense of the Media:
A Handbook of Popular Education Techniques (New York: Monthly Review
Press, 1997)
Faber,
Adele, and Elaine Mazlish: How to Talk So Kids Can Learn: At Home and in
School (New York: Fireside, 1995)
Fajardo,
Brenda, Socrates Topacio et al.: BITAW: Basic Integrated Theater Arts
Workshop (Quezon City: Philippine Educational Theater Association [PETA],
1989)
Freire,
Paulo: Education for Critical Consciousness (New York: Continuum
Publishing Company, 1989)
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: Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage (Lanham,
Boulder, New York and Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1998)
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: Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed (New York:
Continuum Publishing Company, 1994)
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: Pedagogy of the Oppressed (New York: The Seabury Press, 1970)
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: Politics of Education, The: Culture, Power, and Liberation (New York,
Westport and London: Bergin and Garvey Publishers, 1985)
GATT-Fly:
Ah-Hah! A New Approach to Popular Education (Toronto: Between the
Lines, 1983)
Hammond,
John L.: Building Popular Power: Workers and Neighborhood Movements in the
Portuguese Revolution (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1988)
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: Fighting to Learn: Popular Education and Guerilla War in El Salvador
(New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 1998)
Horton,
Myles, and Paulo Freire: We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on
Education and Social Change (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990)
Illich,
Ivan: De-Schooling De-Conditioning (Menlo Park: Portola Institute,
1971)
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: Deschooling Society (New York, Evanston, San Francisco and London,
1972)
Kohn,
Alfie: The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional
Classrooms and “Tougher Standards” (Boston and New York: Houghton
Mifflin Company, 1999)
Kozol,
Jonathan: Free Schools (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1972)
McLaren,
Peter, and Peter Leonard: Paulo Freire: A Critical Encounter (London
and New York: Routledge, 1993)
Martí,
José: On Education: Articles on Educational Theory and Pedagogy, and
Writings for Children from The Age of Gold (New York and London: Monthly
Review Press, 1979)
Marx,
Karl: Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, The (various publishers;
various dates); note: not about popular education per se, but is an
excellent example of the applied methodology of historical materialism
National
Coalition of Hispanic Health and Human Services Organizations: Theater as a
Tool for Prevention: The Choice Is Yours (Washington: National Coalition
of Hispanic Health and Human Services Organizations, 1996)
Neill,
A.S.: Neill! Neill! Orange Peel! (New York: Hart Publishing Company,
1972)
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: Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing (New York: Hart
Publishing Company, 1960)
Norton,
Theodore Mills, and Bertell Ollman, eds.: Studies in Socialist Pedagogy
(New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1978)
Placzek,
Beverley R., ed: Record of a Friendship: The Correspondence between Wilhelm
Reich and A.S. Neill 1936—1957 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
1981)
Purpel,
David E.: The Moral and Spiritual Crisis in Education: A Curriculum for
Justice and Compassion in Education (New York, Westport and London: Bergin
and Garvey Publishers, 1989)
Rubinstein,
Annette T.: Schools against Children: The Case for Community Control
(New York: Monthly Review Press, 1970)
Sheffield,
Anne, and Bruce Frankel, eds.: When I Was Young I Loved School: Dropping
Out and Hanging In (New York: Children’s Express Foundation, 1988)
Shor,
Ira: Critical Teaching and Everyday Life (Boston: South End Press,
1980)
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: Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for Social Change (Chicago
and London: University of Chicago Press, 1992)
Snitzer,
Herb: Living at Summerhill (New York: Collier Books, 1968)
Spolin,
Viola: Theater Games for the Classroom: A Teacher’s Handbook
(Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1986)
[various
authors]: Summerhill: For and Against (New York: Hart Publishing
Company, 1970)
4.
Other books of interest
Breton,
André: What Is Surrealism? Selected
Writings (np: Monad Press, 1978)
Debord,
Guy: Oeuvres Cinématographiques Complètes
1952—1978 (Paris: Éditions Champ Libre, 1978)
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: Preface to the Fourth Italian Edition
of The Society of the Spectacle (London: BM Chronos, 1979)
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: Society of the Spectacle (Detroit:
Black and Red, 1977)
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: Society of the Spectacle and Other
Films (London: Rebel Press, 1992)
Foster,
Stephen, and Rudolf Kuenzli: Dada
Spectrum: The Dialectics of Revolt (Madison: Coda Press, 1979)
Galeano,
Eduardo: Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a
Continent (New York, Monthly Review Press, 1997)
Gutiérrez,
Gustavo: A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics and Salvation
(Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1973)
Helman,
Cecil G.: Culture, Health and Illness: An Introduction for Health
Professionals (Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1994)
Hogan,
Linda, Deena Metzger, and Brenda Peterson, eds.: Intimate Nature: The Bond
between Women and Animals (New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1998)
Internationale
Situationniste: Internationale
Situationniste 1958—69 (Paris: Éditions Champ Libre, 1975)
Keck,
Margaret E.: The Workers' Party and Democratization in Brazil (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1992)
Kivel,
Paul: Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
(Gabriola Island, British Columbia: New Society Publishers, 1996)
Knabb,
Ken, ed.: Situationist International
Anthology (Berkeley: Bureau of Public Secrets, 1981)
MacEoin,
Gary: The People's Church: Bishop Samuel Ruiz of Mexico and Why He Matters
(New York: Crossroad Publishing Company, 1996)
Reich,
Wilhelm: Mass Psychology of Fascism, The (New York: Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 1971)
Situationist
International: On the Poverty of Student
Life (Berkeley: Contradiction, 1972)
Union Nationale des Etudiants de France and Association Fédérative
Générale des Etudiants de Strasbourg [pseudonymously by Internationale
Situationniste]: De La Misere en Milieu
Etudiant (Strasbourg: np, 1966)
Warner,
David, with Carol Thuman and Jane Maxwell: Where There Is No Doctor: A
Village Health Care Handbook (Palo Alto: Hesperian Foundation, 1992)