LEADER 04727nam 22007335 450 001 9910506392603321 005 20240322020741.0 010 $a9783030813772 010 $a3030813770 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-81377-2 035 $a(CKB)5340000000068508 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6791572 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6791572 035 $a(OCoLC)1286427809 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-81377-2 035 $a(EXLCZ)995340000000068508 100 $a20211024d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDrama, Politics, and Evolution $eCliodynamics in Play /$fby Bruce McConachie 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (307 pages) 225 1 $aCognitive Studies in Literature and Performance,$x2945-7300 311 08$a9783030813765 311 08$a3030813762 327 $aChapter 1: Genes, Culture and History in Coevolution -- Chapter 2: Cultural Performatives in History -- Chapter 3: Coevolution in the Pleistocene -- Chapter 4: Destructive Creation in World History -- Chapter 5: Post-war Hegemony and the Reagan Reversal, 1945-1985 -- Chapter 6: Neoliberalism and Political Realignment, 1980-2015 -- Chapter 7: The Better Angels of Our Nature or the Age of Trump, 2000-2020. . 330 $a"A must-read from one of the pioneers of scientific approaches to performance and theater. If, like me, you're a skeptic about the science of universals, you'll find a wealth of brilliant readings to challenge and inform you in this innovative book." --Angus Fletcher, Professor of Story Science at Ohio State's Project Narrative and author of Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature (pub.year). "In a brilliant reformulation of evolutionary theory, Bruce McConachie sets up a guiding principle for the unified ways that performance and politics operate in human societies across the centuries. In a series of well-written and carefully argued sections, he argues for the shaping power of evolutionary universals in the stages of human history. As he proclaims, biology and culture are fundamentally intertwined. Now, in our modern times, we are offered a vital understanding of how and why our cultural worlds andsocieties are joined together in the universal controls of evolution." --Thomas Postlewait, School of Drama, University of Washington, USA. This book outlines the evolution of our political nature over two million years and explores many of the rituals, plays, films, and other performances that gave voice and legitimacy to various political regimes in our species' history. Our genetic and cultural evolution during the Pleistocene Epoch bestowed a wide range of predispositions on our species that continue to shape the politics we support and the performances we enjoy. The book's case studies range from an initiation ritual in the Mbendjela tribe in the Congo to a 1947 drama by Bertolt Brecht and include a popular puppet play in Tokugawa Japan. A final section examines the gradual disintegration of social cohesion underlying the rise of polarized politics in the US after 1965, as such films as The Godfather, Independence Day, The DarkKnight Rises, and Joker accelerated the nation's slide toward authoritarian Trumpism. A historian of performance, Bruce McConachie has written Engaging Audiences (2008), Evolution, Cognition, and Performance (2015), and Theatre Histories: An Introduction (with others, 2006, 2010, and 2016). . 410 0$aCognitive Studies in Literature and Performance,$x2945-7300 606 $aDrama 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aWorld politics 606 $aCognitive science 606 $aEvolution (Biology) 606 $aDrama 606 $aPhilosophy of Literature 606 $aPolitical History 606 $aLiterary Theory 606 $aCognitive Science 606 $aEvolutionary Theory 615 0$aDrama. 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aWorld politics. 615 0$aCognitive science. 615 0$aEvolution (Biology) 615 14$aDrama. 615 24$aPhilosophy of Literature. 615 24$aPolitical History. 615 24$aLiterary Theory. 615 24$aCognitive Science. 615 24$aEvolutionary Theory. 676 $a792 676 $a792.01 700 $aMcConachie$b Bruce$0953113 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910506392603321 996 $aDrama, Politics, and Evolution$92568650 997 $aUNINA