Forms of emotion : human to nonhuman in drama, theatre and contemporary performance
Performing arts Emotions Animal psychology
Routledge
2022
EISBN 1000464369
Cover.
Half Title.
Series Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
List of figures.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
Chapter summaries.
Framing the emotions, emotional feeling, mood and affect.
Performing is not feeling that emotion.
1. Affect theory and performance intention.
Distinctions in performance.
Feeling divided.
Affect currents.
Contested intentions.
Live - in theory.
Impersonal affect and personal feeling.
Presence and transmission.
Resistance.
Formless affect and aesthetic form.
2. Judging pity, fear and humanness.
Pity and fear in action.
Fear of shame.
Opposition shocks.
Wonder and catharsis.
Mimetic natures.
Towards compassion.
Fear and animalness.
3. Appraising emotional feeling.
Talk of feeling.
Navigating obstruction.
Substitute passions.
Appraisal of emotional feeling.
Ugly metaphor.
Inexplicable feeling.
Cruel structures of colonized feeling.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Animals and anthropocentric emotionalism.
Comic surrogates.
Tragic symbols.
Sensory body insensitivity.
Performing emotional connections.
8. 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.
9. Prosodies of affect and emotional climates.
Walking, trusting.
Weather worlds.
Motivating.
Breathing.
Sharing.
Conclusion: Emotional freedom in performance.
References.
Index.
Half Title.
Series Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
List of figures.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
Chapter summaries.
Framing the emotions, emotional feeling, mood and affect.
Performing is not feeling that emotion.
1. Affect theory and performance intention.
Distinctions in performance.
Feeling divided.
Affect currents.
Contested intentions.
Live - in theory.
Impersonal affect and personal feeling.
Presence and transmission.
Resistance.
Formless affect and aesthetic form.
2. Judging pity, fear and humanness.
Pity and fear in action.
Fear of shame.
Opposition shocks.
Wonder and catharsis.
Mimetic natures.
Towards compassion.
Fear and animalness.
3. Appraising emotional feeling.
Talk of feeling.
Navigating obstruction.
Substitute passions.
Appraisal of emotional feeling.
Ugly metaphor.
Inexplicable feeling.
Cruel structures of colonized feeling.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Animals and anthropocentric emotionalism.
Comic surrogates.
Tragic symbols.
Sensory body insensitivity.
Performing emotional connections.
8. 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.
9. Prosodies of affect and emotional climates.
Walking, trusting.
Weather worlds.
Motivating.
Breathing.
Sharing.
Conclusion: Emotional freedom in performance.
References.
Index.
