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Theatre and aural attention : stretching ourselves
- Title
- Theatre and aural attention : stretching ourselves / George Home-Cook.
- Author
- Home-Cook, George, 1975-
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
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- Description
- ix, 229 pages : illustration; 23 cm
- Summary
- "The question of attention in theatre remains relatively unexplored. In redressing this, Theatre and Aural Attention investigates what it is to attend theatre by means of listening. Focussing on four core aural phenomena in theatre - noise, designed sound, silence, and immersion - George Home-Cook concludes that theatrical listening involves paying attention to atmospheres. Such matters are examined as they have arisen in some of the most sophisticated works of theatre sound design of recent years, including Sound & Fury's Kursk, Romeo Castellucci's Purgatorio, Complicite's Shun-kin and Robert Lepage's Lipsynch. In suggesting how theatre works to direct the audience's aural attention, the book also carries out an important enquiry into radio drama (Beckett's All That Fall, Embers, and Pinter's A Slight Ache). This ground-breaking study will be of interest to drama students, sound theorists, practitioner-researchers, performance philosophers, and to anyone curious to explore what it means to attend theatre."--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-211) and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- 1. Paying Attention to (Theatre) Noise -- 2. Paying Attention to Designed Sound -- 3. Sounding Silence -- 4. Sensing Atmospheres -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: (P. Sven Arvidson's 'Sphere of Attention')
- Call Number
- MWET 15-4230
- ISBN
- 9781137393685 (hardback)
- 1137393688 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2015001201
- OCLC
- 897400077
- Author
- Home-Cook, George, 1975- author.
- Title
- Theatre and aural attention : stretching ourselves / George Home-Cook.
- Publisher
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-211) and index.
- Research Call Number
- MWET 15-4230