The problems of viewing performance : epistemology and other minds / Michael Y. Bennett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bennett, Michael Y., 1980- author.

Series:

Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies.

Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater audiences--Psychology.

Theater audiences.

Theater--Philosophy.

Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (151 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2021]

Summary:

"The Problems of Viewing Performance challenges long-held assumptions by considering the ways in which knowledge is received by more than a single audience member, and breaks new ground by, counterintuitively, claiming that viewing performance is not a shared experience. Given that viewers come to each performance with differing amounts and types of knowledge, they each make different assumptions as to how the performance will unfold. Often modified by other viewers and often after the performance event, knowledge of performance is made more accurate by superimposing the experiences and justified beliefs of multiple viewers. These differences in the viewing experience make knowledge surrounding a performance intersubjective. Ultimately, this book explains the how and the why audience members have different viewing experiences. The Problems of Viewing Performance is important reading for theatre and performance students, scholars and practitioners, as it unpacks the dynamics of spectatorship and explores how audiences work"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I

A public experience: but is it shared?

Knowledge, (Dis)agreement, and other minds

A public reality of one's own

Part II - Epistemic problems-Hamlet and Horatio's "Hamlet" ... in light of other minds

Temporal-spatial problems

Border progressions and locating the self: mobility and immobility in Le jeu de Saint Nicholas and The castle of perseverance

Contextual problems Writing and unwriting contexts: translating public and private experience in Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul

Lingual problems (private and public) performances of the self: the performance of language and the self in Susan Jahoda's Flight patterns

(Post/trans)script

"What do you feel?" ...now.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781351166966

1351166964

9781351166942

1351166948

OCLC:

1239123968