Forms of emotion : : human to nonhuman in drama, theatre and contemporary performance / / Peta Tait.

• Superior document: Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies
• VerfasserIn: Tait, Peta, 1953-
• Place / Publishing House: London, England ;, New York, New York : : Routledge,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (266 pages)

Table of Contents

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.