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Affective performance and cognitive science : body, brain and being / edited by Nicola Shaughnessy.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; London : Bloomsbury : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2013Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 300 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1306842069
  • 9781306842068
  • 9781408193150
  • 1408193159
  • 1408183692
  • 9781408183694
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Affective performance and cognitive science.DDC classification:
  • 700.1/05 23
LOC classification:
  • N71 .A375 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
FC ; Half title ; Quote ; Title ; Copyright ; Dedication ; Contents ; List of Illustrations ; List of Contributors ; Acknowledgements ; General Introduction: Operating in Science Theatres ; Nicola Shaughnessy ; Part 1 Dances with Science ; Introduction: Interdisciplinarity and Cognitive Approaches to Performance
Anna Furse 3 Uncertain Knowledge: Representing Physical Pain through Performance ; Erin Hood ; Part 2 Touching Texts and Embodied Performance ; Introduction: Texts and Embodied Performance ; Amy Cook ; 4 An Exercise in Shame: The Blush in A Woman Killed With Kindness
Natalie Bainter 5 Wayfaring in Everyday Life: The Unravelling of Intricacy ; John Lutterbie ; 6 Between Faulty Intellects and Failing Bodies: An Economy of Reciprocity in Wit and 33 Variations ; Naomi Rokotnitz ; Part 3 The Multimodal Actor ; Introduction: The Multimodal Practitioner
Rhonda Blair 7 Embodied Memory and Extra-Daily Gesture ; Neal Utterback ; 8 Footage: Surface Feelings ; Martin Welton ; 9 The Effect of Theatre Training on Cognitive Functions ; Gabriele Sofia ; Part 4 Affecting Audiences ; Introduction: Spectating as Sandbox Play
Summary: This book explores new developments in the dialogues between science and theatre and offers an introduction to a fast-expanding area of research and practice. The cognitive revolution in the humanities is creating new insights into the audience experience, performance processes and training. Scientists are collaborating with artists to investigate how our brains and bodies engage with performance to create new understanding of perception, emotion, imagination and empathy. Divided into four parts, each introduced by an expert editorial from leading researchers in the field, this edited volume o.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-291) and index.

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FC ; Half title ; Quote ; Title ; Copyright ; Dedication ; Contents ; List of Illustrations ; List of Contributors ; Acknowledgements ; General Introduction: Operating in Science Theatres ; Nicola Shaughnessy ; Part 1 Dances with Science ; Introduction: Interdisciplinarity and Cognitive Approaches to Performance

Anna Furse 3 Uncertain Knowledge: Representing Physical Pain through Performance ; Erin Hood ; Part 2 Touching Texts and Embodied Performance ; Introduction: Texts and Embodied Performance ; Amy Cook ; 4 An Exercise in Shame: The Blush in A Woman Killed With Kindness

Natalie Bainter 5 Wayfaring in Everyday Life: The Unravelling of Intricacy ; John Lutterbie ; 6 Between Faulty Intellects and Failing Bodies: An Economy of Reciprocity in Wit and 33 Variations ; Naomi Rokotnitz ; Part 3 The Multimodal Actor ; Introduction: The Multimodal Practitioner

Rhonda Blair 7 Embodied Memory and Extra-Daily Gesture ; Neal Utterback ; 8 Footage: Surface Feelings ; Martin Welton ; 9 The Effect of Theatre Training on Cognitive Functions ; Gabriele Sofia ; Part 4 Affecting Audiences ; Introduction: Spectating as Sandbox Play

This book explores new developments in the dialogues between science and theatre and offers an introduction to a fast-expanding area of research and practice. The cognitive revolution in the humanities is creating new insights into the audience experience, performance processes and training. Scientists are collaborating with artists to investigate how our brains and bodies engage with performance to create new understanding of perception, emotion, imagination and empathy. Divided into four parts, each introduced by an expert editorial from leading researchers in the field, this edited volume o.

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