Practical Puppetry A-Z A Guide for Librarians and Teachers

Name: Practical Puppetry A-Z A Guide for Librarians and Teachers
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ISBN: 9780786415168

ISBN-10: 0786415169

ISBN-13: 9780786415168

Edition: 2005

Authors: Carol R. Exner

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Puppetry is an exciting, flexible, malleable art form that can engage the creative forces of children or adults. Puppets can not only tell a story, they can be used to enhance the curriculum, present an idea or a concept in a compelling way, or teach any number of necessary skills. Children and adults presenting a puppet play are given a sense of their own inventive power. This reference work offers an A to Z view of working with puppets. It covers everything from the basic strategies of advertising and marketing puppet productions, to assembling the puppets out of household materials such as paper bags, cereal boxes, or gloves, to the more elaborate sculpting of armatures. Stages, curtains…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 9/8/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 279
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Carol R. Exner is a childrens librarian at the Parkwood Branch of the Durham County, North Carolina, library system. A member of Beta Phi Mu,the honor society for library students, she lives in Durham.



Acknowledgment


Preface


African Puppetry


American Indian Puppetry


Apron Stages


Armatures


Assistants


Atlanta Center for Puppetry Arts


Audiences


Bag Puppets


Beaks


Beginners


Body Puppets


Bottle Heads and Puppets


Box Stages


Brush Puppets


Bunraku


Business of Puppetry


Cardboard Boxes


Cardboard Tube Sliding-Mouth Puppets


Cereal Box Puppets


Characters


Chinese Bag Puppet Theaters


Clothespin Puppets


Clubs


Comedy


Concept Puppets


Costumes


Courses


Craft Clays


Curtains


Dioramas


Directing Puppet Plays


Disabilities


Doorway Stages


Ears


Educational Puppetry


Egg Carton Puppets


Eyes


Festivals


Finger Puppet Theaters


Finger Puppets


Fist Puppets


Flannel Boards


Foam Rubber Puppets


Focus


Giant Puppets


Glove Puppets


Glue Gun Techniques


Grants and Internships


Greeting Card Theaters


Guignol


Hair and Wigs


Hamburger Box Puppets


Hand Puppets


Hands


Hands as Puppets


Hanging Stages


Hanging Toy Theaters


Hinges


History of Puppetry


India and Puppetry


Internet Links


Islamic Puppetry


Jumping Jacks


Junk Puppets


Karagoz


Life-Sized Puppets


Lighting


Limberjacks


Marionettes


Mask Puppets with Movable Mouths


Masks


Mime


Mouth Puppets


Mouths


Music


National Day of Puppetry


National Puppetry Conference


National Puppetry Festival


Noses


Object Theater


Paper Bag Theaters


Papier-Mache


Peep Shows


Philosophy of Puppetry


Polymer and Air-Hardening Clays


Ponytail Holder Movable Mouths


Pop-Up Puppets


Practice


Preschoolers' Puppets


Props


Punch and Judy


Puppet Corners


Puppet Gloves


Puppeteers


Puppeteers of America


Puppetools


Puppets Defined


Publications


PVC Puppet Stages


Rehearsal


Rod Puppets


Scenery


Sets of Basic Puppets


Shadow Puppet Screens


Shadow Puppets


Shelf-Sitter Puppets


Shoe Box Theaters


Sock Puppets


Sound Systems


Sponge Puppets


Spring-Legged Puppets


Stages


Stereotyping


Stick Puppets


Storage


Stories and Scripts


Stuffed Animal Puppets


Styrofoam Puppet Heads


Table Top Stages


Teeth


Therapy through Puppetry


Tissue-Mache


Toy Theaters


Transformational Puppets


UNIMA and UNIMA-USA


University of Connecticut's Puppetry Arts Program


Voices


Wayang


Whirling Disk Puppet Theaters


Wooden Puppet Heads


Wooden Spoon Puppets


Wrist Puppets


Annotated Bibliography


Index