Forms of emotion : human to nonhuman in drama, theatre and contemporary performance /: human to nonhuman in drama, theatre and contemporary performance. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Peta Tait.
• Authors: Tait, Peta, 1953-
• Contents: List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Forms of Emotion Chapter Summaries Framing the Emotions, Emotional Feelings, Mood and Affect Performing Is Not Feeling that Emotion Chapter one: Affect Theory and Performance Intention Performance Distinctions Feeling Divided Affect Currents Contested Intentions Live Performance – In Theory Impersonal Affect and Personal Feeling Presence and Transmission Resistance Formless Affect and Aesthetic Form Chapter two: Judging Pity, Fear and Humanness Pity and Fear in Action Fear of Shame Opposition Shocks Wonder and Catharsis Social Obedience Mimetic Natures Towards Compassion Fear and Animalness Chapter three: Appraising Emotional Feeling Talk of Feeling Navigating Obstruction Substitute Passions Appraisal of Emotional Feeling Ugly Metaphor Inexplicable Feeling Cruel Structures of Colonized Feeling Chapter four: Performing Moods, Tears and Bodily Phenomena Theatrical Exchange Modernist Convergence Acting an Inner Self Imagined spaces of Longing and Happiness Doing Bodily Affect Performing Freedom Unifying Aesthetic Moods Chapter five: Political Belief and Social Cognition of Emotions Contesting Courage Acting Science and the Brain–Body Trauma’s Affect Unifying Empathy Theatre’s Emotional Economy Emotional Feeling as Belief Chapter six: En/Acting Diverse Emotional Freedoms Rule-breaking Paradox Love’s Force Fields Human Right to Emotional Feeling Politics of Fear Rage Against Postemotional Denial Theatrical Freedoms Chapter seven: Animals and Anthropocentric Emotionalism Comic Surrogates Tragic Symbols Sensory Body Insensitivity Performing Emotional Connections Chapter eight: Enveloping the Nonhuman: Contemporary Indigenous Performance Collaborating Traditions Continuities in Storytelling Bodily Perceiving Movement Unity in Bangarra’s Dark Emu Enveloping Affect and Emotional Movement Feeling Knowledge and Nonhuman Time Chapter nine: Prosodies of Affect and Emotional Climates Walking Weather Worlds Motivating Talking Breathing Conclusion: Sharing References Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 792.019; Performing arts -- Psychological aspects; Emotions -- Psychological aspects; Animal psychology; Performance
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000464436; 9781000464368; 9781003124832
• Related ISBNs: 9780367644970
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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