Engaging Audiences: A Cognitive Approach to Spectating in the Theatre (Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance)
Book Details
Author(s)
B. McConachie
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN / ASIN
0230116736
ISBN-13
9780230116733
Availability
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Sales Rank
#1,349,826
Category
Performing Arts
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
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.
