Engaging audiences : a cognitive approach to spectating in the theatre /

Engaging audiences : a cognitive approach to spectating in the theatre /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	McConachie, Bruce A.
Imprint:	New York ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, c2008.
Description:	ix, 248 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cognitive studies in literature and performance Cognitive studies in literature and performance.
Subject:	Theater audiences. Theater audiences -- Psychology. Theater -- Philosophy. Theater -- Semiotics. Theater and society. Theater and society. Theater audiences. Theater audiences -- Psychology. Theater -- Philosophy. Theater -- Semiotics.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7539345

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ISBN:	9780230609884 (cased) 0230609880 (cased) 9780230116733 0230116736
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	'Engaging Audiences' asks what cognitive science can teach scholars of theatre studies about spectator response in the theatre. The author introduces insights from neuroscience and evolutionary theory to examine the dynamics of conscious attention, empathy and memory in theatre goers.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
General Cognition for Theatre audiences
Social Cognition in Spectating
Cultural Cognition in History
Epilogue: Writing Cognitive audience Histories