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  • The Creative Writer's Mind

    by Nigel Krauth ...
    Series Book 18 - New Writing Viewpoints
    What goes on in creative writers’ heads when they write? What can cognitive psychology, neuroscience, literary studies and previous research in creative writing studies tell creative writers about the processes of their writing mind?Creative writers have for centuries undertaken cognitive research. Some described cognition in vivid exegetical essays, but most investigated the mind in creative ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Creative Writing and the Radical

    Teaching and Learning the Fiction of the Future

    by Nigel Krauth ...
    Series Book 13 - New Writing Viewpoints
    The rise of digital publishing and the ebook has opened up an array of possibilities for the writer working with innovation in mind. Creative Writing and the Radical uses an examination of how experimental writers in the past have explored the possibilities of multimodal writing to theorise the nature of writing fiction in the future. It is clear that experimental writers rehearsed for ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Audiobook

    Freedom Highway

    by Nigel Krauth ...
    Narrated by Noel Hodda ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 32 min

    Thailand and Southeast Asia in the late 1950s moves inexorably towards the Vietnam War. American, British and Australian agents are moving in. Businessmen, diplomats, aid personnel - entrepreneurs of all kinds - have come to the streets of Bangkok to ply their trades. Stephen Brasch, a young American lawyer working for the Rockefeller Foundation, comes to Thailand to ‘do good'. When Brasch blows ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    The Magic of Consciousness

    by Nicholas Humphrey ...
    A radically new view of the nature and purpose of consciousnessHow is consciousness possible? What biological purpose does it serve? And why do we value it so highly? In Soul Dust, the psychologist Nicholas Humphrey, a leading figure in consciousness research, proposes a startling new theory. Consciousness, he argues, is nothing less than a magical-mystery show that we stage for ourselves inside ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Practice as Research

    Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry

    Edited by Estelle Barrett, Barbara Bolt ...
    Practice-led research is a burgeoning area across the creative arts, with studio informed doctorates frequently favoured over traditional approaches to research. Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry is specifically designed as a training tool and is structured on the model used by most research programmes. A comprehensive introduction lays out the book's framework and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Lessons in Perception

    The Avant-Garde Filmmaker as Practical Psychologist

    by Paul Taberham ...
    Narrative comprehension, memory, motion, depth perception, synesthesia, hallucination, and dreaming have long been objects of fascination for cognitive psychologists. They have also been among the most potent sources of creative inspiration for experimental filmmakers. Lessons in Perception melds film theory and cognitive science in a stimulating investigation of the work of iconic experimental ... Read more

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  • The Actor, Image, and Action

    Acting and Cognitive Neuroscience

    by Rhonda Blair ...
    The Actor, Image and Action is a 'new generation' approach to the craft of acting; the first full-length study of actor training using the insights of cognitive neuroscience. In a brilliant reassessment of both the practice and theory of acting, Rhonda Blair examines the physiological relationship between bodily action and emotional experience. In doing so she provides the latest step in ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Ambiguity of Play

    by Brian Sutton-Smith ...
    From the Pilgrims who settled at Plymouth Rock to Christian Coalition canvassers working for George W. Bush, Americans have long sought to integrate faith with politics. Few have been as successful as Hollywood evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. During the years between the two world wars, McPherson was the most flamboyant and controversial minister in the United States. She built an enormously ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • Embodied Acting

    What Neuroscience Tells Us About Performance

    by Rick Kemp ...
    ‘A focus on the body, its actions, and its cognitive mechanisms identifies ... foundational principles of activity that link the three elements of theatre; Story, Space, and Time. The three meet in, are defined by, and expressed through the actor’s body.’ – from the IntroductionEmbodied Acting is an essential, pragmatic intervention in the study of how recent discoveries within cognitive science ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Kinesthetic Empathy in Creative and Cultural Practices

    Edited by Dee Reynolds ...
    A key interdisciplinary concept in our understanding of social interaction across creative and cultural practices, kinesthetic empathy describes the ability to experience empathy merely by observing the movements of another human being. Encouraging readers to sidestep the methodological and disciplinary boundaries associated with the arts and sciences, Kinesthetic Empathy in Creative and Cultural ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Such Stuff as Dreams

    The Psychology of Fiction

    by Keith Oatley ...
    Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction explores how fiction works in the brains and imagination of both readers and writers.Demonstrates how reading fiction can contribute to a greater understanding of, and the ability to change, ourselvesInformed by the latest psychological research which focuses on, for example, how identification with fictional characters occurs, and how literature can ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

  • Aesthetics on the Edge

    Where Philosophy Meets the Human Sciences

    by Dominic McIver Lopes ...
    Philosophers say what art is and then scientists and then other scholars study how we are equipped, cognitively and socially, to make art and appreciate it. This time-honoured approach will not work. Recent science reveals that we have poor intuitive access to artistic and aesthetic phenomena. Dominic McIver Lopes argues for a new approach that mandates closer integration, from the start, between ... Read more

    $69.99 USD