Engaging Audiences: A Cognitive Approach to Spectating in the Theatre

by Bruce McConachie

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230116736
• ISBN13: 9780230116733
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"