Theatre and Mind

by Bruce McConachie

Overview

All performance depends upon our abilities to create, perceive, remember, imagine and empathize. This book provides an introduction to the evolutionary and cognitive foundations of theatrical performing and spectating and argues that this scientific perspective challenges some of the major assumptions about what takes place in the theatre.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350316041
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	12/07/2012
Series:	Theatre And
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	627 KB

About the Author

BRUCE MCCONACHIE is Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. His publications include Engaging Audiences: A Cognitive Approach to Spectating in the Theatre; Performance and Cognition: Theatre Studies And the Cognitive Turn (co-edited with H. Elizabeth Hart) and Theatre Histories: An Introduction (co-written with Phillip Zarrilli, Carol Sorgenfrei, and Gary Williams). He is a past-president of the American Theatre and Drama Society and the American Society for Theatre Research, and the series editor for the Palgrave Macmillan series Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface
Introduction
Playing
Acting
Spectating
Further Reading
Index.