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

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Bloomsbury, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (315 p.)
• Disciplina: 701.15
• Soggetto topico: Psychology and art; Art and science; Arts - Psychological aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): ShaughnessyNicola
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; Bruce McConachie
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Affective performance and cognitive science
• ISBN: 1-4081-8369-2; 1-4081-9315-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910153105103321
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