Local Drama Research Articles

Exploring Cross-Cultural Influences in the Pakistani Drama Industry: A Critical Analysis

The aim of this research paper is to highlight the impact of Indian, Turkish, and now Korean content on Pakistani society through television dramas from the last three decades. The study provides a comparative analysis of different global customs, cultural traditions, and lifestyles in our particular local drama, perceiving how our drama industry has evolved with foreign influences over time. While keeping in mind our glorious era of the 1970s, 80s, even 90s, and millennium, Pakistani modern-day drama has been overshadowed by foreign supremacy. The overlapping similarities among these cultures are one of the reasons the audiences can relate to these drama genres and conclusively are fascinated with their influence. Although it is a matter of consideration that our local viewer has a wide variety of drama content on other platforms, the growing popularity and impact of the abovementioned cultures can be relatable to modern-day collective issues. Moreover, the present study proves that the influence of Indian, Turkish, and Korean content in our local drama industry is gradually changing the lifestyles and mindsets of youth. Undoubtedly, international content shares some relevance rather than fascination and may promote cultural diversity, but the fastest-changing trends among Pakistani youth require attention and an immediate approach to redefining cultural identity. Moreover, the study reveals that our local drama become more commercialized while addressing serious social issues due to foreign influences, which are not alienated but irrelevant to Indigenous Pakistani society. This comparative analysis has been done on the basis of the viewer’s perception and exploratory research method towards foreign influences in our local drama industry using the technique of innate expressionism.

Exploration of the Inheritance and Protection Ways of Local Drama—Take the Jinghe Opera as an Example

Exploration of the Inheritance and Protection Ways of Local Drama—Take the Jinghe Opera as an Example

Leisure Aspect of the Everyday Life of Factory Workers in Yelysavethrad at the Turn of the 19th–20th centuries

The article highlights the development of the leisure aspect of the everyday life of factory workers in Yelysavethrad at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries, characterizes its forms, qualitative content and specifics. It has been established that the leisure culture of Yelysavethrad workers in the late nineteenth century was dominated by destructive activities and habits typical of the working communities of industrial cities of the Naddniprianshchyna. With the intensification of industrial production at the turn of the century and the attention drawn to the situation of the working community during the events of the Russian Revolution of 1905–1907, the germs of recreational infrastructure began to appear in the city, creating an alternative for workers in the form of constructive, life-affirming forms of recreation — reading periodicals and literature, visiting the circus, enjoying theatre, football, etc. To a large extent, this trend was influenced by the owners of enterprises and their administration, rather than by representatives of the city government. The expansion of enterprises and production teams and their increased economic prosperity in the early twentieth century made it possible to invest in improving the socio-economic and cultural level of the working community. The cultural and leisure sphere was best organised at the largest enterprise in the city, the R. and T. Elworthy’s Plant of Agricultural Machinery. In 1905, the owner created the «People’s House» at the enterprise, which served as a hall for public performances and theatrical performances of the local drama group, dances; there was a bowling alley and a factory library. The company had an amateur orchestra, a cycling club and its own football team. In addition to this, the author has made an attempt to create a periodisation of the development of workers’ leisure in Yelysavethrad, based on the chronology of the quantitative and qualitative expansion of its main elements.

Nilai Kearifan Lokal pada Legenda Ki Buyut Batisari Kecamatan Pabedilan

This study aims to describe: (1) the value of local wisdom in the legend of Ki Buyut Batisari, Pabedilan District by the local community, (2) its use as a drama learning module in grade VIII junior high school. This type of research is a qualitative research with descriptive method. The data from this study is the legend of Ki Buyut Batisari. Data collection techniques indirectly affect the acquisition of research data, therefore data collection techniques must be adapted to the research objectives. In this study, in obtaining data, the authors used data techniques in the form of: (1) Listening techniques, (2) Recording techniques. The results of this study can be concluded that the value of local wisdom in the legend describes research data related to the problem that has been formulated, namely the value of wisdom in the legend of Ki Buyut Batisari, Pabedilan District, Cirebon Regency in the form of: (1) mutual cooperation, (2) honesty, (3) Commitment, (4) Confidence, (5) Politeness, (6) Authority, (7) Honesty. Using it as a module contains KD 3.16 Examining the structure and language of local dramas that are read and heard, KD 4.16 Acting out the contents of local regional dramas that are read and heard. The implications of the value of local wisdom in the legend of Ki Buyut Batisari, Pabedilan Sub-District, can make it easier for teachers to explain cultural values ​​that can be used as lessons and students and generations will always preserve their local culture, especially local wisdom in the legend of Ki Buyut Batisari.

Research on the visual design of Sichuan dialect emoticons

The regional features contained in dialects cannot be compared to those of official languages, although dialects are viewed as less elegant. The younger generation perceives dialect as more "native." Moreover, Putonghua, the official language of China, has gained popularity in recent years. How to preserve and advance regional dialects has become a study-worthy issue. This study examines the visual design of fusion emoticons in the Sichuan dialect. The initial objective is to examine how the Sichuan dialect implements emoticons in graphic design. The second objective is to investigate the cross-border incorporation and growth of the Sichuan dialect emoticon graphic design. The research methodology combines design-based action research and case analysis. The result is a summary of the emoticon design style that incorporates Sichuan dialect, regional characteristics, and local drama and culture. In the design practice, the researchers blended the Sichuan dialect and the panda, a unique local animal, as the major body of the combined emoticon. In the design elements extracted from history and culture, the characters of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which has a long history in Sichuan, were chosen for exploration; in the attempt at local drama, dynamic emoticons were created by combining the image of a Sichuan opera stage performance with Sichuan dialect. This discussion will contribute to the propagation of Sichuan dialect-based regional culture. From the perspective of cultural development and economic benefits, this paper examines the opportunities presented by the cross-border and deep integration of Sichuan dialects and emoticons in order to promote people's understanding of Sichuan dialects from multiple perspectives, provide a model for the design of the integration of idioms and emoticons, and broaden people's options for daily use

Study on the Influence of Local Drama on Regional Preschool Aesthetic Education Under the Theory of Cultural Capital

Preschool aesthetic education is an important part of the social and cultural education structure, and it is also the most basic stage for individuals to accept aesthetic education. With the gradual development of human civilization, the form of preschool aesthetic education is more diversified and the scope is more expanded. Today, with the increasing wealth of cultural capital, preschool aesthetic education still has unbalanced regional development and uneven development in a small area. Based on this, this paper aims to explain the relationship between cultural capital and the development of regional preschool aesthetic education. It also explains that the relationship between local drama and preschool aesthetic education makes local drama form a benign promotion and symbiotic relationship for the development of regional preschool aesthetic education, and makes use of regional cultural advantages to minimize the imbalance of regional development of preschool aesthetic education.

Inventing the American City: Dion Boucicault, John Brougham, and Transatlantic Urban Melodrama

Two Dublin-born playwrights, Dion Boucicault and John Brougham (9 May 1810–7 June 1880), shadowed each other through the world of nineteenth-century theatre. In recent years, critical attention has often focused on their representations of racial and national identities, with Boucicault's plantation drama, The Octoroon, and Brougham's frontier parodies deservedly attracting attention. However, in this essay I want to spotlight their contribution to the local drama, and in particular their staging of urban America within the wider transatlantic context of staging the nineteenth-century city, in such plays as The Poor of New York (1857) and The Lottery of Life (1868). The city as it appears in their work is a place of spectacle, shapeshifting, and sheer illicit fun.

Language, gender and sexuality in 2021

This year-in-review addresses the way violence and civil unrest manifested intensely in 2021, at the two-year mark of the Covid-19 pandemic, by inspecting the local dramas various authors re-narrate through the lenses of gender, sexuality and their semiotic performances. Three focal points organise the literature recontextualised here. First is the study of the lingering effects of cisheteropatriarchy in different contexts. Second, while forging a diagnosis of the present, the texts reviewed here address ongoing practices that defy the persistent colonial gaze. Third, they propose future paths that follow the decolonial route now at the centre of language, gender and sexuality research. Overall, the works resonate with the sound of the past, the fury of the present and the hope for the future. While transitioning forward with actions set forth today, they reimagine colonial yesterdays. As such, they indicate the chronotopic mobility of power-resistance performances.

А Local Drama (an Episode From the Life of Mid-19th Century Moscow Tatars)

The article deals with an episode from the life of Moscow Tatars in 1841–1842, associated with the theft from the house of influential Tatar merchant M. Abdulov. The main themes of research are Tatar Muslim (separate ethno- confessional) community in Moscow in general, and religious life in Zamoskvorechye district, role of imams, everyday life of mid-19th century Muscovites, cases of Muslims christianising, in particular. For the first time in Russian Muslim Studies the author uses some unpublished documents of the Central State Archive of Moscow and the National Archive of the Republic of Bashkortostan.

PENGEMBANGAN SEBUAH PENGAJARAN RESPONSIF BUDAYA (CRT) PADA KELAS DRAMA (SEBUAH KOLABORASI MAHASIWA DALAM PEMENTASAN DRAMA CERITA LOKAL)

DEVELOPING A CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING (CRT) ON TEACHING DRAMA ( A COLLABORATION ON STUDENTS’ LOCAL STORY DRAMA PERFORM)
 ESNHAbstract: This study is meant to investigate how lecturer develop a culturally responsive teaching on drama class especially students’ collaborative of local story drama perform. The problem of this research is formulated as how does the lecturer develop CRT on teaching drama? The study was stimulated by the writer’s interest to examine the CRT on a collaboration of 5th semester students’ local story drama performance by understanding the local story through drama teaching whereas nowadays teaching also touch about the local content. The research subjects are 5th semester students from 3 different classes that the writer collaborate them in a collaboration team. The writer randomly collaborate the students by means of getting them to adapt, cooperate and create their own acting to be more fearless, creative in front of the stage. A qualitative research was conducted by observing the students’ activity and watching the video documenting students’ performance. From the data result the writer found that the drama class based CRT are the students learn within the context of different culture, students being the center in teaching and learning process, students adjusted the learning with the group members and the teacher being the mediator to succeed the students’ project. The conclusion is the students enrich their knowledge of historical story from different ethnics as well as they authentically know the differences local story among them. The suggestions are the educators should convey the local content in teaching and learning process in class based culturally responsive teaching.
 Keywords: Developing, Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT), Teaching Drama, Collaboration

Protection and Inheritance of Local Dramas in China: A Case Study of Liuqin Troupe in Pizhou City

Protection and Inheritance of Local Dramas in China: A Case Study of Liuqin Troupe in Pizhou City

Broadcast Media Entertainment and Attitude Cultivation: A Study of Obscene Programme Viewership by College Students

This study examined broadcast media entertainment and attitude cultivation, a study of behavioural patterns of College Students. It is a survey designs study that investigated undergraduate communication students of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Oyo State and Moshood Abiola Polytechnics, Ogun State. Systematic random sampling was adopted to select a sample size of three hundred (300) communication students of the two institutions as respondents for this study. Programmes such as films, soap operas and musicals, etcetera were units considered. The theoretical framework is premised on the cultivation theory and gratification theory. Its analysis was hinged on the simple percentage statistical calculation. The study outcome showed that youth crave satisfaction in the entertainment programmes they watch and that entertainment programmes like musical videos, foreign and local drama do portray obscenity which brings about delinquent behaviour in the younger generation. It was recommended that producers and directors of entertainment products should be conscious of young people who form the chunk of their audience to eliminate obscenity in programme production, while parents should control the level of media exposure of their wards

Latin America and the Global Cold War

Latin America and the Global Cold War

Autohton și contemporan. „Amurgul burghez” la Târgu-Mureș în 1983

Friday, 4 February 1983, spectators gathered for the premiere of Târgu-Mureș National Theater’s Hungarian department. The performance entitled "Egy öngyilkos világa", was directed by Dan Alecsandrescu, and based on the drama signed by an autochthonous and even local author, Romulus Guga: "Amurgul burghez" ("The Bourgeois Twilight"). The analysis of this theatrical event shows the evolution of the interpretation of the contemporary local drama in the Ceausescu period. I reviewed the semantic changes of the term and I examined how they affected the repertoire of the theater from Târgu-Mureș in that time.

Literacy, Social Structure and Local Social Dramas

This paper starts by describing Roger Schofield's work on the measurement of literacy, and especially his use of the proportion of brides and grooms who could sign the marriage register to quantify the extent of illiteracy among different sections of society. The paper then discusses other potential sources of data on illiteracy. Frequently these sources describe local social events, in which the politics of the parish intersect the history of the nation, and social, cultural, and political history come together. Work using these sources can expose some of the intangibles of ideology, religion, and morality to which literacy only gestures. Linking these records to other local sources may reveal how kinship, neighbourliness, or economic associations drove participation in ritual, cultural, and quasi-political activities. The final part of the paper illustrates this using an extended example of the response of the local population to the wreck of a ship off the coast of Dorset in 1641.

Getting animated about trauma – Using video animation as part of informed consent

IntroductionTrauma patients are often required to make an informed decision about surgery within a short space of time. Coming to terms with their injury may mean they have limited bandwidth for absorbing information, and it may be that they don't appreciate the risks and benefits of surgery discussed during consent. Current consent practice puts the emphasis on the clinician to ensure that all reasonable steps have been taken to explain risks and benefits to patients. We propose the use of video animations that patients can watch prior to surgery as a means of improving their understanding and overall experience. MethodsThe video script was written and evaluated so that a high standard was achieved using the “Discern” instrument. The experiences of a focus group of 5 patients were used to guide script content. Using GoAnimate (GoAnimate Inc., San Mateo) a video was made with voice over provided by local drama students. The video was shown to 30 consecutive patients over a 2 month period. We included any patient with an ankle fracture managed operatively who had been consented (form 1). Evaluation consisted of interview with patients consisting of 2 focussed questions and one open. Responses to the questions were collated and grouped into positive and negative descriptors. Results68 (81%) positive descriptors were recorded from patients’ interviews versus 16 (19%) negative. Positive descriptors related to improved retention, information giving, technical detail, consolidations of information given during consent. Negatives were caveats that video couldn't replace face-to-face consent, the degree of detail being off-putting and not adding anything to standard consent. ConclusionThe video was well received by patients with subjective improvements being made to their understanding, retention and sharing of technical detail. The face-to-face discussion between patient and doctor remains very important to them and the video should look to augment this.

'And breathe…'? The sociology of health and illness in COVID-19 time.

'And breathe…'? The sociology of health and illness in COVID-19 time.

Theater Art in Oleksandrivsk (Zaporizhzhya): end of the 19th – beginning of the 20th сenturies

Theater Art in Oleksandrivsk (Zaporizhzhya): end of the 19th – beginning of the 20th сenturies

The Moderating Role of Gender between Perceived Value of Foreign Products and Customer Switching Behaviour : A case of an Egyptian TV drama

The growing popularity of foreign drama has led Egyptian viewer’s to switch to foreign drama, which has affected the rates of viewing local drama. This study is based on the qualitative and quantitative inputs, which were used in the research; this method is known as triangulation or trigonometric. The analytical study used (33 articles) from the press in order to obtain data through an analytical form whose category included all the questions of the analytical study. A quantitative survey conducted among 450 viewers of drama in Egypt. The responses were tabulated on a five-point Likert scale. Data analysis used SPSS and SmartPLS statistical software packages. The study findings revealed that, overall, Indian and Turkish dramas have an impact on Egyptian drama; there are many factors which affect the determinants of perceived value of foreign drama, which have somewhat negatively affected the switching behaviour of the viewers from Egyptian drama. There is a relationship between determinants of perceived value, and Viewer switching behaviour. Finally, gender as a modified variable affects the switching behaviour of the viewers. This study has improved our understanding of the factors affecting viewers ’attractiveness to foreign drama. The study presents important implications for both theory and practice.

The national and the popular in Israeli cinema

Abstract. Avisar Ilan, The national and the popular in Israeli cinema. “Images” vol. XXV, no. 34. Poznań 2019. Adam Mickiewicz University Press. Pp. 29–44. ISSN 1731-450X. DOI 10.14746/i.2019.34.02.
 The article examines Israeli cinema as a critical participant in the local drama of national ideology and national identity. Israeli filmmakers have engaged in enunciating the national culture, in the context of the medium’s history, political ideologies, and the tension between high art and popular culture. The historical review of Israeli films shows dramatic changes over the years from nationalistic propaganda to radical critique and post-Zionism. Israeli cinema appears now to seek a constructive and fruitful dialogue with the viewers. In the recent wave of popular films, the national ideology is more conscious of its past mistakes and inherent deficiencies; its presentation of national identity is less narrow and more open to alternative types, thereby suggesting new vistas of national culture.