Engaging Audiences
ISBN: 9780230617025
Platform/Publisher: SpringerLink / Palgrave Macmillan US
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Subjects: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection;

Engaging 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.

BRUCE McOCNACHIE is Professor and Chair of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, University of Pittsburgh, USA.

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