JOURNAL OF DERAMATIC ARTS AND MUSIC
Year:2017 | Volume:7 | Issue:14 |Papers Count:8

Tom Stoppard is a British playwright who has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage. He became a famous figure in dramatic literature with plays such as Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, Professional Foul, The Real Thing, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. In Dogg’ s Hamlet, Cahoot’ s Macbeth-two plays by Tom Stoppard, written to be performed together-written in 1980, Stoppard has incorporated linguistics with dramatic literature. As language-game is one of most important linguistics topics, Stoppard has applied it to find a new way for conveying meanings. Language-game is one of the Wittgenstein’ s topics in his book, Philosophical Investigations. Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. Language-game is a philosophical concept developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein and Friedrich Waismann, referring to simple examples of language use and the actions into which the language is woven. In Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein has argued that concepts do not need to be clearly defined meaningfully. Accordingly, in Dogg’ s Hamlet and Cahoot’ s Macbeth, Stoppard used Shakespearian texts in his own plays and then developed Wittgenstein’ s language game theory based on people diary activities. He put his audience to interface new language named Dogg that apparently is English, but its meanings are different. In first play, audience learns Dogg language based on Wittgenstein’ s theory. “ Meaning in use” is another theory that Stoppard used in second play. In an illustrative passage in Wittgenstein’ s Philosophical Investigations, which plays out in the play, a builder, A, is building something using differently shaped building stones. As A calls out “ slab! ” “ block! ” “ pillar! ” or “ beam” , the appropriate stones are brought to him by his assistant, B. An observer might assume that the words name the objects, but Wittgenstein suggests another interpretation: the co-worker already knows what pieces to toss and in what order, but the words are rather signals that A is ready for the next piece. Wittgenstein also suggests a scenario in which one worker understands the words to mean the shapes of the wood and the other understands the words as the signification of readiness. In other words, the two workers speak different languages without being aware of this fact. In Cahoot’ s Macbeth, after entering the Inspector character, Players continue the play in Dogg language-that already audience can recognize it. According to language game theory, Stoppard has succeeded to show there is no private language and only power can win against power. In this paper, it is shown that audience can learn the meanings of words as “ Meaning in use” and it is possible in any other paly. In his play, it should be noted that, Tom Stoppard is creating series of rules in the field of language and presenting a new language to audience. He makes the audience familiar with the rules of the language game effects.

The theatre, in a sense, consists in the “ performance” of the Representation: re-presenting the “ Representation” (The Representation whose forms determine the “ truth of an age” ). In fact, despite any lasting catharsis, theatre, which has become the scenic performance of the representations (State, Culture, Society, and so on), bring forth an indifferent (but not potential) subject. This indifference is related to both temporal and spatial structures-to temporal structure: drama is “ performed” because it is already the finished drama; to spatial structure: the “ form” of scene itself has already named both sides: actor and spectator. The problem, of course, is that the “ scene” has become the dominant spatial structure in the human community. On the other hand, like any other vital sphere, precisely it is by this absolute sovereignty of representations that “ space-theaters” , not dialectically but accidentally, withdraw themselves from representation. Theatre, in this sense, will expose itself as an exact opposite of the representative theatre. Thus, it will strive to disclose the unconcealedness of any open affair repressed by the constituted forms of representation. Thanks to this strife, “ we” also can dwell in place of the “ all-together of representedness” , in the theatre of “ truth” . This paper is a report of our “ confrontation” with the drama and theatre of HASANK-E VAZIR as a theatre of truth, in which “ spatial relations” would determine the potentiality and contingency of roles, of tensions, and of thoughts. In this paper, in other words, it has been tried to make clear a relation between an open drama (affair) and the Open (“ to liberate the Open and to establish it in its structure” (Heidegger 1975: 45) is the only way to cope with the constituted representations. The Open is a space in which beings confront one another, seeing only those angles made visible by the particular standing--or placement--of each). Our aim is to arrive at a viewpoint from which, once again, the indispensable connectedness among the Work of Art, the True and the Political would be appeared. In the first place, we pursue the concept of artwork by its origin: “ The Origin of the Work of Art” by Martin Heidegger. Then, we would leave the origin of the artwork for the theatre of the artwork. The theatre of the artwork or the theatre of truth would be an escape line that redeems us from origin and originthinking. In third step, our task would be only to show that gallows-HASANAK had installed a theatre (Here we come back to “ the Origin” but as the drama of the Open). Thus, we would talk over “ thing-being” of and then “ work-being” of gallows-HASANAK-because thing-being of gallows-HASANAK is the path to its “ workbeing” and its “ work-being” opens its theatre. In conclusion, the discussion will end up with clearing this idea that gallows-HASANAK, as a work, had preserved the political potentiality of the situation.

The meaning of literacy in different times and periods was varied and special, because of different indicators and branches of human sciences. Because of the plenty of resources, the advancement of technology and the impacts of cyberspace on communications, there are various definitions of literacy. In current century one of the most important indicators for measuring of literacy rates of people, is Media Literacy; The Media Literacy is an ability for receive and understanding the information and data which transmitted by all kinds of media. This process can change the concepts and definitions by multiple complicated methods to improve the ability of the audiences, for understanding to learn and analyze this type of literacy-Media Literacy. Fine Arts as a media can help us in this process. Among this kind of arts, the Theatre-as a mass media-must be analyze by the newest method and index. Based on this essential introduction, this study tries to compare the techniques of Bertolt Brechet’ s playwriting with key concepts of media͏ ͏ literacy, with a focus on dramatic and social aspects and then analyze them. To achieve this goal, in the first step, by offering nine features of Brecht`s playwriting-rationalism, history, removal of anticipation and apprehension, building something, use of repetition, emphasis on story content, role Language, rewriting and dialectical vision in building of Drama-in some of his plays-Baal, Drums in the night, Driving out a Devil, Lux in Tenebris, Mysteries of barbershop, The life of Edward II of England, man equals man, little Mahagonny, The Baden-baden lesson on consent, Happy end, The decision, The mother, Kuhle Wampe, Round Heads and Pointed Heads, Fear and Mysery of the Third Reich, Mother Courage and Her Children, Mr Puntila and his Man Matti, The Good person Szechwan, The days of the Commune, The tutor, Trumpets and Drums-and the most important views and definitions of the concept of Media Literacy, the analysis roadmap was drawn and after that, these items were analyzed. The final results of this research, confirm the hypothesis-matching the Brechtian techniques with the principles of Media Literacy, and the beginnings of the practical form of media literacy by Brecht`s theatre-and another finding of this study is to introduce Brecht as a leader in the field of media literacy noted.

In the current paper, after reviewing verbal humor, I have put forth this concept through the lens of semantics and pragmatics. Having set a theoretical foundation, I have analyzed “ Don’ t Drink the Water” and “ Riverside Drive” , two of Allen’ s plays, and I have tried to show verbal humor patterns and mechanisms in his works. Allen, creatively and seamlessly, has woven his visual imagination into a poetics stemmed from both reality and unknown concepts, depicts insecurity and makes use of it.

Considering the great attention contemporary film theories devote to the corporeal dimensions and tactile aspects of watching movies, the potential of baroque art to construct the cinematic space cannot be ignored. Based on the baroque art, cinema rather than ensuring a superior position and an optical domination of subject/observer over images creates a territory in which the audiences are invited to immerse themselves in the film’ s space and are allowed to coexist with filmic bodies. In this kind of viewing, the observers cannot look at characters and spaces separately, and the spatial folds would draw them into corporeal/sensual labyrinths of the film. Due to the fold relationship between the spectator’ s inner space and filmic space, a sort of intertwining link is emerged. Therefore, any action from one side is followed by a reaction from the other side. The physical movements of the characters and the dynamic relationship between space and body in the baroque cinema, interacting with the audience’ s sensory responses, can arouse an internal emotion in the viewer. Merleau-Ponty’ s phenomenological perspective and the concept of “ intertwining” , along with Deleuze’ s philosophy and the notion of “ Fold” , can help us analyze the experiences of watching baroque cinema. We argue that cinematic experience might be considered as the process of the dynamic interaction between these “ intertwining folds” . In the interactive process of these folds, the bipartite act of internalizing and exteriorizing takes place. In the internalizing process, the filmic spatial territories (merged with sensual/corporeal territories of the characters) penetrate through the observer’ s inner space. In the exteriorizing process, the viewer projects his own spatial perceptions (affected by memories, desires, and dreams) onto the world of the film. Through this exchange, the audiences give their emotions to the characters and accordingly the film finds its emotional space through the spectator’ s body. In contrast to the voyeuristic and panoptic control of optical pattern, baroque cinematic experience could be considered as a state of “ assimilation into the cinematic collective sensuality” while submerging “ oneself” in the sensuality of cinematic geography in a state of Dionysian ecstasy. The members of the audience that are engaged with the chaos of cinematic sensual-spatial energies, experience a kind of sensory-corporeal expansion in connection with the bodies and spaces which are extended through gestalt geography. Being attracted and absorbed, a viewer who has been immersed in chaotic energies of bodily movements and sensual flux, experiences a manner of spatial displacement, a sense of inability to coordinate navigation, the spatial exploration beyond the boundaries of “ selfness” and “ subjectivity” . The centralized space of subjectivity is shattered and the subject thus is dispersed throughout the sensuality of cinema’ s fluid geography. Experience of baroque cinema seems like freedom from the limits of individualists “ self” that is disjointed from others in order to experience a sense of connection with “ others” , and to form a continuum of togetherness. Chaotic and intensive sensual cinematic geography, dissolves territories of “ individual subjectivity” in the space of “ collective sensuality” , and creates a sense of inter-subjective coherence.

Self-reflexivity is a meta-media and meta-reference theory which is defined and discussed in philosophy, psychology, and different forms of art. Though it is not a new concept and we can trace it back to the beginning of the history of art and in the earliest texts, but by the rise of Brecht’ s theories, it was theorized and accepted by the researchers; and in the sixties, self-reflexivity turned into the core idea of postmodernism. The most valuable feature of this theory is awareness: the awareness of the spectator facing the art and the awareness of the author in the procedure of creating it, which leads to creativity and distinct functions in these types of works. In any reflective piece of art, the audience is deliberately conscious of all the indications of the art and freely interprets them. Self-Reflexivity in cinema includes a vast variety of motion pictures, from the silent era to the present time, which has different attractions and functions based on their course and representation in the history of filmmaking. The intensive variety of reflexivity might even mislead us to this idea that every film is a self-reflexive one, but it is the functionality of reflexive elements which would help us to determine a reflexive film from a non-reflexive one. Reflexivity has developed through time, and by any historical event has taken new forms and distinct functionality. While its approach changes from one kind of art to another kind and from one genre to another genre, reflexivity is much related to its position in the text, and its cultural and social background, and even the orientation of the audience. The main aim of this research is to study the functions of self-reflexivity in films which can make the spectator more attracted to them. This article is a descriptive, analytic, and a qualitative research which has been demonstrated by the library research process. Since there are a lot of different opinions on the meaning and the terminology of self-reflexivity, this study consists of various definitions of self-reflexivity in art, different styles of reflexivity and its dramatic functions in Cinema.

In the field of psychology, music is recognized as a separate language. Similar to other languages in the world, music has its own area in the brain and in order to be able to understand it there is a definite need for such trainings. In addition to the direct impacts on other arts, music has always been in interaction with people throughout the world in such a way that it has been considered to address the phenomena of social, political and cultural works. The results of several researches have suggested that training in the world of music has positive effects on memory, selective attention, special abilities, mathematics and reading ability of children to solve social issues (social skills). In addition, similar researches have shown that music can improve people’ s learning and academic performances. Some studies have suggested that music with words has a more profound effect on Verbal memory than that of Visual memory. The present study has attempted to investigate the effects of music on students’ creativity and learning skills. This was based on a casual comparative or ex post facto relationship. In order to carry this research, 120 female and male students of the same age were equally chosen from ordinary secondary schools and art schools, namely those who were in seventh grade in Tehran, the Iranian capital. They were 60 students from ordinary schools and 60 from music conservatory/schools, of these 60 students, 30 were female and 30 male in each type of institution. The sample regarding secondary schools was chosen using a cluster sampling method; but, as the numbers of the art schools were very few, the sample chosen was considered to be based on the convenience sampling method. Both groups were given a creativity questionnaire at the end of the term. The data was collected and later analyzed using the student T-test. To measure students’ creativity, the Torrance test of creativity was adopted in this research. The test consists of 60 questions with three options to respond to, encompassing all the four different subsets of creativity namely fluid, expansion, innovation and flexibility. Using the above test, the creativity of the students of different institutions and different genders were measured and analyzed. To measure students learning and hence their academic performances the classroom marks of the students of different types of institutions and genders were also investigated. The reliability of the four different subsets of fluid, expansion, innovation and flexibility were; 0. 82, 0. 83, 0. 80 and 0. 84 respectively. The results showed that the creativity of students attending art colleges where they major in music, performed much better than their counter part students, studying at ordinary schools in all the four different subsets of the creativity. The results also revealed that female students outperformed their male counterparts and that the females in art colleges did better than the females in the ordinary secondary schools.

This paper aims to study Claude Debussy’ s works (1862-1918) in order to display his longing for the Oriental art, and to examine the new sounds and symbols he introduced to the Western music of the twentieth century. This French composer of the impressionist school, like his predecessors – such as Gauguin, the painter of the same school – made a lot of effort to find the beauties of the Oriental art, and to associate them with the music of his era. His approach opened new windows of musical connection for the later musicians, and brought about an outstanding evolution in the twentieth century art, by itself. The first spurs of propensity towards the Oriental art was ignited in Debussy by his several journeys and sojourns in Russia and encounter with the ideas of the artists there, especially those of Mussorgsky, also by viewing the East-Asian, e. g. Indonesian, music concerts when visiting the achievements at Exposition Universelle at the end of the nineteenth century. In order to evade the greatest music of his era, especially the German music, and to escape from its overhanging shadow, he felt the need for an evolution in the structure of the twentieth century music, and this transformation became possible via an exploration in the Oriental music. Having heard the music of the Gamelan ensemble of Java, Debussy fell in love with this music and began to compose pieces using the elements of the Oriental music. Using a historical and analytical outlook within the scope of Debussy’ s works, this article analyzes his works from artistic and musical perspectives, and demonstrates that his works, like Estampes and Arabesque, composed in the early years of the twentieth century, all have an Oriental tendency and are inspired by the Oriental music, and that, with a fresh look at the major composition elements, such as rhythm, melody, harmony, and orchestration, Debussy presented a fresh structure of the Western classical music for the later composers. This article will also demonstrate that Debussy opened new pathways of acquaintance for later music enthusiasts and artists, leading the later composers to take firmer steps towards furthering the Western music. Among Debussy’ s important achievements in approaching the Oriental music is the founding of schools and movements such as minimalism in music; admittedly, foundations of sciences, such as ethnomusicology, lie in this outlook of Debussy’ s. One could observe, since then, that the western composers have been searching for fresh elements and new sounds via affinity and cooperation with the instrumentalists and musician of the Orient, and this, per se, has been a beginning for the spiritual encounter of the artists of the East and the West, a significant development and fusion made possible through Debussy’ s efforts, and, quoting Pierre Boulez, Debussy was the turning point of the Western music. By examining Debussy’ s works, this study aims to introduce him as the herald of this colossal movement. Lastly, one can claim that this approach set the foundation for the fusion and synthesis of the Eastern and Western music.