The art of theater [[electronic resource] /] / James R. Hamilton

• Autore: Hamilton James R
• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (244 p.)
• Disciplina: 792.01
• Soggetto topico: Theater - Philosophy
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Prologue; Part I:The Basics; 1 The Emergence of the Art of Theater:Background and History; 1.1 The backstory:1850s to 1950s; 1.2 The decisive in . uences:Brecht,Artaud,Grotowski; 1.3 The decisive years:1961 to 1985; 1.4 The final threads:absorption of new practices into the profession and the academy; 2 Theatrical Performance is an Independent Form of Art; 2.1 Theatrical performance as radically independent of literature; 2.2 Theatrical performance as a form of art; 3 Methods and Constraints; 3.1 Idealized cases that help focus on features needing analysis ; 3.2 Three general facts about theatrical performances and the constraints they impose on any successful account of theatrical performances4 Theatrical Enactment:The Guiding Intuitions; 4.1 Enactment:something spectators and performers do; 4.2 The crucial concept:"attending to another "; 4.3 What it is to "occasion " responses; 4.4 Audience responses:willing suspension of disbelief, acquired beliefs,or acquired abilities?; 4.5 Relativizing the account by narrowing its scope to narrative performances; Part II:The Independence of Theatrical Performance; 5 Basic Theatrical Understanding ; 5.1 Minimal general success conditions for basic theatrical understanding5.2 Physical and affective responses of audiences as non-discursive evidence of understanding; 5.3 The success conditions for basic theatrical understanding met by moment-to-moment apprehension of performances; 5.4 "Immediate objects," "developed objects," and "cogency "; 5.5 Objects of understanding having complex structures; 5.6 Generalizing beyond plays; 5.7 The problem of "cognitive uniformity "; 6 The Mechanics of Basic Theatrical Understanding ; 6.1 The "feature-salience " model of spectator convergence on the same characteristics6.2 What it is to respond to a feature as salient for some characteristics or a set of facts; 6.3 A thin common knowledge requirement; 6.4 A plausibly thickened common knowledge requirement; 6.5 The feature-salience model,"reader-response theory," and "intentionalism "; 6.6 Generalizing the salience mechanism to encompass non-narrative performances; 6.7 Some important benefits of the feature-salience model: double-focus,slippage,"performer power," "character power," and t ; 6.8 The feature-salience model and explaining how basic theatrical understanding occurs7 What Audiences See; 7.1 Identifying characters,events,and other objects in narrative performances; 7.2 Re-identification of characters and other objects in narrative performances; 7.3 The special nature of theatrical (uses of )space: performances and performance space; 7.4 Cross-performance re-identification; 7.5 Identifying and re-identifying objects in non-narrative performances; 7.6 Added benefits of the demonstrative and recognition- based approach to identification and re-identification ; 7.7 Theatrical performance as a fully independent practice
• Sommario/riassunto: The Art of Theater argues for the recognition of theatrical performance as an art form independent of dramatic writing. Identifies the elements that make a performance a work of art Looks at the competing views of the text-performance relationships An important and original contribution to the aesthetics and philosophy of theater
• Titolo autorizzato: The art of theater
• ISBN: 1-281-06905-1; 9786611069056; 0-470-69087-9; 0-470-76610-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996201833003316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: New directions in aesthetics ; ; 4.