03839nam 2200517 450 991077478150332120220714234636.01-00-312483-61-000-46436-91-003-12483-6(CKB)5600000000023172(MiAaPQ)EBC6789233(Au-PeEL)EBL6789233(OCoLC)1283857873(EXLCZ)99560000000002317220220714d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierForms of emotion human to nonhuman in drama, theatre and contemporary performance /Peta TaitLondon, England ;New York, New York :Routledge,[2022]©20221 online resource (266 pages)Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies0-367-64497-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter summaries -- Framing the emotions, emotional feeling, mood and affect -- Performing is not feeling that emotion -- 1. Affect theory and performance intention -- Distinctions in performance -- Feeling divided -- Affect currents -- Contested intentions -- Live - in theory -- Impersonal affect and personal feeling -- Presence and transmission -- Resistance -- Formless affect and aesthetic form -- 2. Judging pity, fear and humanness -- Pity and fear in action -- Fear of shame -- Opposition shocks -- Wonder and catharsis -- Mimetic natures -- Towards compassion -- Fear and animalness -- 3. Appraising emotional feeling -- Talk of feeling -- Navigating obstruction -- Substitute passions -- Appraisal of emotional feeling -- Ugly metaphor -- Inexplicable feeling -- Cruel structures of colonized feeling -- 4. Performing moods, tears and bodily phenomena -- Theatrical exchange -- Modernist convergence -- Acting an inner self -- Imagined spaces of longing and happiness -- Doing bodily affect -- Performing freedom -- Unifying aesthetic moods -- 5. Political belief and social cognition of emotions -- Contesting courage -- Acting science and the brain-body -- Trauma's affect -- Unifying empathy -- Theatre's emotional economy -- Emotional feeling as belief -- 6. En/Acting diverse emotional freedoms -- Rule-breaking paradox -- Love's force fields -- Human right to emotional feeling -- Politics of fear -- Rage against postemotional denial -- Theatrical freedoms -- 7. Animals and anthropocentric emotionalism -- Comic surrogates -- Tragic symbols -- Sensory body insensitivity -- Performing emotional connections -- 8. Enveloping the nonhuman: Contemporary indigenous performance -- Collaborating traditions.Continuities in storytelling -- Bodily perceiving movement -- Unity in Bangarra's Dark Emu -- Enveloping affect and emotional movement -- Feeling knowledge and nonhuman time -- 9. Prosodies of affect and emotional climates -- Walking, trusting -- Weather worlds -- Motivating -- Breathing -- Sharing -- Conclusion: Emotional freedom in performance -- References -- Index.Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance StudiesPerforming artsPsychological aspectsEmotionsPsychological aspectsAnimal psychologyPerforming artsPsychological aspects.EmotionsPsychological aspects.Animal psychology.792.019Tait Peta1953-856115MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910774781503321Forms of emotion3664987UNINA