Lexington Books
Pages: 268
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Trim: 6½ x 9
978-1-4985-6996-5 • Hardback • December 2018 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-4985-6997-2 • eBook • December 2018 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
Dana L. Solomon holds a PhD in interdisciplinary studies from the University of British Columbia.
Part I: The ICE Paradigm
Chapter 1: Ideology and Entertainment
Chapter 2: Language
Chapter 3: Ideology and Conflict
Chapter 4: The Moral Imagination
Chapter 5: Narrative Entertainment
Chapter 6: Complexity
Chapter 7: Ethics
Chapter 8: Build Relationships
Chapter 9: Represents and Challenges Situations and Identities
Chapter 10: Identities
Chapter 11: Imagined Identities
Chapter 12: Multiple Perspectives
Part II: Creating and Understanding Two Merchants
Chapter 13: Creating Two Merchants
Chapter 14: Characters
Chapter 15: Two Merchants Design and Technical Elements
Chapter 16: Results
Chapter 17: Understanding the Results
Chapter 18: ICE and the Future
Epilogue: Reflections of a Director/Researcher: Limits and Obstacles
In Ideological Battlegrounds, Dana L. Solomon opens up original and penetrating pathways toward understanding and possibly resolving what often appears to be an insolvable conflict. This book becomes more timely with the passing of each day. It is indispensable reading for anyone who hopes to even begin to comprehend the situation in the Middle East.
— David Patterson, University of Texas at Dallas
In Ideological Battlegrounds Dr. Solomon has developed a thoughtful and creative approach to engaging theater as a catalyst for critical discussions around the Arab-Israeli conflict. At the heart of this book rests her play The Two Merchants which effectively subverts and disrupts, enabling audience members to rethink and reconsider these ongoing tensions. I strongly recommend this interdisciplinary and insightful book.
— George Belliveau, University of British Columbia
The Department of Theatre and Film at UBC eagerly embraced the Two Merchants project in 2011 as it was a unique blend of practice and scholarship. Dana L. Solomon used a live theater event as the platform to test her belief that the theater could change minds and therefore change the world. Many of us have professed this for our entire professional lives, but Solomon tackled the belief head on and has provided analytic proof that we were right all along!
— Stephen Heatley, University of British Columbia