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Engaging Audiences: A Cognitive Approach to Spectating in the Theatre (Paperback

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EAN
9780230116733
ISBN
0230116736

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-10
0230116736
ISBN-13
9780230116733
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99507481

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
IX, 248 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Engaging Audiences : a Cognitive Approach to Spectating in the Theatre
Subject
Theater / General, Theater / History & Criticism, General
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Author
Bruce Mcconachie
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Performing Arts
Series
Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"In its formidable combination of clarity, engagement, and rigor, this book presents a persuasive case that theatre and performance studies should pay more attention to the workings of the mind...A landmark in both theatre history and theories of audience reception." - Theatre Research International "A major synthesis of theatre/performance and cognitive studies. McConachie finds just the right balance between scientific details and theatrical examples." - Philosophy and Literature "A thoughtful, readable, and provocative work with important implications for critical theory, historiography, and production." - John Emigh, Professor of Theatre, Speech, and Dance and Professor of English, Brown University, "Armed with a deep knowledge of the history of spectatorship, McConachie constructively engages with the recent findings of cognitive scientists to challenge fundamental assumptions about how and why we view and recall theatrical events. The result is a thoughtful, readable, and provocative work with important implications for critical theory, historiography, and production."--John Emigh, Professor of Theatre, Speech, and Dance and of English, Brown University " Engaging Audiences provides a major synthesis of theatre/performance and cognitive studies. McConachie finds just the right balance between scientific details and theatrical examples."-- Philosophy and Literature "In its formidable combination of clarity, engagement, and rigour, it present[s] a persuasive case that theatre and performance studies should pay more attention to the workings of the mind...A landmark in both theatre history and theories of audience reception."-- Theatre Research International, "Armed with a deep knowledge of the history of spectatorship, McConachie constructively engages with the recent findings of cognitive scientists to challenge fundamental assumptions about how and why we view and recall theatrical events. The result is a thoughtful, readable, and provocative work with important implications for critical theory, historiography, and production."--John Emigh, Professor of Theatre, Speech, and Dance and of English, Brown University "Engaging Audiencesprovides a major synthesis of theatre/performance and cognitive studies. McConachie finds just the right balance between scientific details and theatrical examples."--Philosophy and Literature "In its formidable combination of clarity, engagement, and rigour, it present[s] a persuasive case that theatre and performance studies should pay more attention to the workings of the mind...A landmark in both theatre history and theories of audience reception."--Theatre Research International, 'Armed with a deep knowledge of the history of spectatorship, McConachie constructively engages with the recent findings of cognitive scientists to challenge fundamental assumptions about how and why we view and recall theatrical events. The result is a thoughtful, readable, and provocative work with important implications for critical theory, historiography, and production.' - John Emigh, Professor of Theatre, Speech, and Dance and of English, Brown University 'Engaging Audiences provides a major synthesis of theatre/performance and cognitive studies. McConachie finds just the right balance between scientific details and theatrical examples.' - Philosophy and Literature 'In its formidable combination of clarity, engagement, and rigour, it present[s] a persuasive case that theatre and performance studies should pay more attention to the workings of the mind...A landmark in both theatre history and theories of audience reception.' - Theatre Research International
Number of Volumes
1 vol.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
792.013
Table Of Content
Introduction General Cognition for Theatre Audiences Social Cognition in Spectating Cultural Cognition in History Epilogue: Writing Cognitive Audience Histories
Synopsis
Engaging Audiences provides an insightful introduction to spectatorship from the perspective of cognitive studies. Using performances of several plays and a wide array of scientific evidence, McConachie examines the dynamics of conscious attention, mental concepts, empathy, emotion, and culture in theatregoing. This ground-breaking study challenges many of the current theories used to understand spectators and is a valuable resource to artists and scholars interested in how and why audiences enjoy performance., Engaging Audiences asks what cognitive science can teach scholars of theatre studies about spectator response in the theatre. Bruce McConachie introduces insights from neuroscience and evolutionary theory to examine the dynamics of conscious attention, empathy and memory in theatre goers.
LC Classification Number
PN1560-1590

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