Forms of Emotion - Tait, Peta

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Auteur(s) : Tait, Peta

Editeur : Routledge

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/11/2021

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 266

Expédition : 549

Dimensions : 24.0 x 16.1 x 1.9

ISBN : 9780367644970

Résumé :

Forms of Emotion analyses how drama, theatre and contemporary performance present emotion and its human and nonhuman diversity.

Biographie:
Peta Tait is Professor of Theatre and Drama at La Trobe University, Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Sommaire:

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Forms of Emotion

Chapter Summaries

Framing the Emotions, Emotional Feelings, Mood and Affect

Performing Is Not Feeling that Emotion

Chapter one: Affect Theory and Performance Intention

Performance Distinctions

Feeling Divided

Affect Currents

Contested Intentions

Live Performance - In Theory

Impersonal Affect and Personal Feeling

Presence and Transmission

Resistance

Formless Affect and Aesthetic Form

Chapter two: Judging Pity, Fear and Humanness

Pity and Fear in Action

Fear of Shame

Opposition Shocks

Wonder and Catharsis

Social Obedience

Mimetic Natures

Towards Compassion

Fear and Animalness

Chapter three: Appraising Emotional Feeling

Talk of Feeling

Navigating Obstruction

Substitute Passions

Appraisal of Emotional Feeling

Ugly Metaphor

Inexplicable Feeling

Cruel Structures of Colonized Feeling

Chapter four: Performing Moods, Tears and Bodily Phenomena

Theatrical Exchange

Modernist Convergence

Acting an Inner Self

Imagined spaces of Longing and Happiness

Doing Bodily Affect

Performing Freedom

Unifying Aesthetic Moods

Chapter five: Political Belief and Social Cognition of Emotions

Contesting Courage

Acting Science and the Brain-Body

Trauma's Affect

Unifying Empathy

Theatre's Emotional Economy

Emotional Feeling as Belief

Chapter six: En/Acting Diverse Emotional Freedoms

Rule-breaking Paradox

Love's Force Fields

Human Right to Emotional Feeling

Politics of Fear

Rage Against Postemotional Denial

Theatrical Freedoms

Chapter seven: Animals and Anthropocentric Emotionalism

Comic Surrogates

Tragic Symbols

Sensory Body Insensitivity

Performing Emotional Connections

Chapter eight: Enveloping the Nonhuman: Contemporary Indigenous Performance

Collaborating Traditions

Continuities in Storytelling

Bodily Perceiving Movement

Unity in Bangarra's Dark Emu

Enveloping Affect and Emotional Movement

Feeling Knowledge and Nonhuman Time

Chapter nine: Prosodies of Affect and Emotional Climates

Walking

Weather Worlds

Motivating

Talking

Breathing

Conclusion: Sharing

References

Index