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Engaging Audiences
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 28.00Engaging Audiences asks what cognitive science can teach scholars of theatre studies about spectator response in the theatre. Bruce McConachie introduces insights from neuroscience and evolutionary theory to examine the dynamics of conscious attention, empathy and memory in theatre goers. more...
Melodramatic Formations
University of Iowa Press 1992; US$ 42.95The middle years of the nineteenth century were a time of dynamic artistic and social changes in America. Now, Melodramatic Formations is the first study to trace these changes in popular stage melodrama's production, dramatic form, and audience reception. Bruce McConachie shows how the theatrical mutability that characterized the years 1820 to... more...
American Theater in the Culture of the Cold War
University of Iowa Press 2005; US$ 29.95In this groundbreaking study, Bruce McConachie uses the primary metaphor of containment—what happens when we categorize a play, a television show, or anything we view as having an inside, an outside, and a boundary between the two—as the dominant metaphor of cold war theatergoing. Drawing on the cognitive psychology and linguistics of... more...
Performance & Cognition: McConachie
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 44.95This anthology is the first of its kind. In addition to opening up fresh perspectives on theatre studies ? with applications for dramatic criticism, performance analysis, acting practice, audience response, theatre history, and other important areas ? the book sets the agenda for future work, helping to map the emergence of this new approach. Following... more...
Theatre Histories
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 62.95This new edition of the innovative and widely acclaimed Theatre Histories: An Introduction offers overviews of theatre and drama in many world cultures and periods together with case studies demonstrating the methods and interpretive approaches used by today's theatre historians. Completely revised and renewed in color, enhancements and new... more...
Theatre Symposium, V 19
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