| Description |
1 online resource (138 pages) |
| Contents |
Chapter 1 Acting, history, and science -- chapter 2 The twentieth-century heritage -- chapter 3 A way of thinking about acting -- chapter 4 Applications |
| Summary |
"The Actor, Image, and Action is a 'new generation' approach to the craft of acting; the first full-length study of actor training using the insights of cognitive neuroscience. In a reassessment of both the practice and theory of acting, Rhonda Blair examines the physiological relationship between bodily action and emotional experience. In doing so she provides the latest step in Stanislavski's attempts to help the actor 'reach the unconscious by conscious means'." "Recent developments in scientific thinking about the connections between biology and cognition require new ways of understanding many elements of human activity, including: imagination, emotion, memory, physicality and reason. The Actor, Image, and Action looks at how these are in fact inseparable in the brain's structure and function, and their crucial importance to an actor's engagement with a role. The book vastly improves our understanding of the actor's process and is a must for any actor or student of acting."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Acting -- Psychological aspects
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Cognitive neuroscience.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Acting & Auditioning.
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Acting -- Psychological aspects
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Cognitive neuroscience
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203938102 |
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0203938100 |
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