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"A fascinating analysis, based on research in psychoanalysis, evolutionary psychiatry, and neuroscience, of ghostly presences in our minds and brains and of how theater, film, and television function to activate these ghosts and transport them from one brain to another. This book marks a quantum leap in our understanding of the crucial role that dramatic performances can play in the intersubjective processes through which human subjects are constituted, maintained, and transformed." - Mark Bracher, Director, Center for Literature and Psychoanalysis, Kent State University
"Mark Pizzato, who long ago slipped through the mirror stage of Lacan into the cellarage of the theater, is now ghosting that form, or being ghosted by it, with cinema too on the brain. Still drawn in the mind's eye to images of transcendence, what he perceives on the actor's body, in the era of the virtual, is augmented now by resources from neurology, cognitive science, and evolutionary psychology, and with all that a transhistorical vision. Given the ancient dreams of immortality that possess him, there is nothing in that vision of a readymade historicism. As he moves from stage to screen, gods and ghosts going with him, surreptitiously in communion with images of the Self, he has written another book with extraordinary specular scope, moving as it does, too, from art to entertainment, then the other way around. Yet, whatever he's examining, or obdurately looking at, it's the shared mortality of actor and spectator that really cuts to the brain, as with the lunatic Lear on the heath, who smells of mortality. To say the least, with all its neuroscientific, ontological range, this is a heady, invaluable book, in which though Pizzato goes avidly to the movies theater materializes (as it does in theory) wherever you look." - Herbert Blau, Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor of the Humanities, University of Washington
About the author
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ghosts of Theatre and Cinema in the Brain
Authors: Mark Pizzato
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403983299
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Mark Pizzato 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7215-6Published: 24 May 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-53343-5Published: 23 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-8329-9Published: 15 March 2006
Series ISSN: 2947-5767
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5775
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 323
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Theatre History, Cultural History, Theatre and Performance Studies, Cultural Studies, Neurosciences