Ghosts of Theatre and Cinema in the Brain / by M. Pizzato.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pizzato, Mark, 1960-

Series:

Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History, 2947-5775

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--History.

Theater.

Civilization--History.

Civilization.

Performing arts.

Culture--Study and teaching.

Culture.

Neurosciences.

Theatre History.

Cultural History.

Theatre and Performance Arts.

Cultural Studies.

Neuroscience.

Local Subjects:

Theatre History.

Cultural History.

Theatre and Performance Arts.

Cultural Studies.

Neuroscience.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XI, 323 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2006.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Pizzato focuses on the staging of Self and Other as phantom characters inside the brain (in the 'mind's eye', as Hamlet says). He explores the brain's anatomical evolution from animal drives to human consciousness to divine aspirations, through distinctive cultural expressions in stage and screen technologies. MARK PIZZATO is Professor of Theatre and Film at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, USA. He is the author of Edges of Loss: From Modern Drama to Postmodern Theory (University of Michigan, 1998), Theatres of Human Sacrifice: From Ancient Ritual to Screen Violence (SUNY, 2005), Ghosts of Theatre and Cinema in the Brain (Palgrave, 2006), Inner Theatres of Good and Evil: The Mind's Staging of Gods, Angels and Devils (McFarland, 2011), and Beast-People Onscreen and in Your Brain (Praeger, 2016). Pizzato also co-edited, with Lisa Perdigao, Death in American Texts and Performances (Routledge, 2016).

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Will the Real Cogito Please Stand Up?

2 Ancient Specters (Prehistoric, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman)

3 Phantom Limbs, Unconscious Zombies, and Multiple Selves

4 Shakespeare's Roman Shades (Titus Andronicus and Titus)

5 Theatrical Elements in the Mind's Eye

6 Ghosts of Hamlet Onscreen

7 Selective Spirits in Neural Evolution

8 Noh Desires and The Others

9 Brain Stages

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

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O

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Q

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T

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W

Y

Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611369910

9781281369918

1281369918

9781403983299

1403983291

OCLC:

567962696