Engaging Audiences: A Cognitive Approach to Spectating in the Theatre (Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance)
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.
Keywords
THEATER AUDIENCESTHEATER_PHILOSOPHYTHEATER AND SOCIETY
2008Book
Author(s)Bruce A. McConachie
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780230609884
LanguageEnglish
