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Author:   Peta Tait
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367644970

ISBN 10:   0367644975
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   30 November 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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

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