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Engaging Audiences

A Cognitive Approach to Spectating in the Theatre

Engaging Audiences
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Engaging Audiences provides an insightful introduction to spectatorship from the perspective of cognitive studies.  Using performances of several plays and a wide array of scientific evidence, McConachie examines the dynamics of conscious attention, mental concepts, empathy, emotion, and culture in theatregoing.  This ground-breaking study challenges many of the current theories used to understand spectators and is a valuable resource to artists and scholars interested in how and why audiences enjoy performance.

Palgrave Macmillan; November 2008
259 pages; ISBN 9780230617025
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