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Kinesthetic Spectatorship the Theatre: Phenomenology, Cognition, Movement
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Kinesthetic Spectatorship the Theatre: Phenomenology, Cognition, Movement
Current price: $99.99
Barnes and Noble
Kinesthetic Spectatorship the Theatre: Phenomenology, Cognition, Movement
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This book is about the centrality of movement, movement perception, and kinesthetic experience to theatrical spectatorship. Drawing upon phenomenological accounts of movement experience and the insights of cognitive science, neuroscience, acting theory, dance theory, philosophy of mind, and linguistics, it considers how we inhabit the movements of others and how these movements inhabit us. Individual chapters explore the dynamics of movement and animation, action and intentionality, kinesthetic resonance (or mirroring), language, speech, and empathy. In one of its most important contributions to the study of theatre, performance, and spectatorship, this book foregrounds otherness, divergence, and disability in its account of movement perception. The discussions of this and other issues are accompanied by detailed analysis of theatre, puppetry, and dance performances.