Actor, Image, and Action - Acting and Cognitive Neuroscience

Zusatztext 'Actors of the 21st Century should read and ponder the implications of this book.'  –  Sharon Carnicke, University of Southern California Informationen zum Autor Rhonda Blair Klappentext Rhonda Blair examines the physiological relationship between bodily action and emotional experience, in the first full-length study of actor training using the insights of cognitive neuroscience and their crucial importance to an actor's engagement with a role. Zusammenfassung Rhonda Blair examines the physiological relationship between bodily action and emotional experience, in the first full-length study of actor training using the insights of cognitive neuroscience and their crucial importance to an actor’s engagement with a role. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. Acting, History, and Science 2. The Twentieth Century Heritage 3. A Way of Thinking about Acting 4. Applications Afterword Appendix: Translation: Image, Action, and Chekhov’s The Seagull

Product details

• Authors: Rhonda Blair, Rhonda (Southern Methodist University Blair, Blair Rhonda
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.11.2007
• EAN: 9780415774161
• ISBN: 978-0-415-77416-1
• No. of pages: 158
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; PERFORMING ARTS / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Performance Art, Acting techniques