Beast-People Onscreen and in Your Brain: The Evolution of Animal-Humans from Prehistoric Cave Art to Modern Movies - Couverture rigide

Pizzato, Prof. Or Dr. Mark

 
9781440844355: Beast-People Onscreen and in Your Brain: The Evolution of Animal-Humans from Prehistoric Cave Art to Modern Movies

Synopsis

A new take on our bio-cultural evolution explores how the "inner theatre" of the brain and its "animal-human stages" are reflected in and shaped by the mirror of cinema.

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À propos de l?auteur

Mark Pizzato, MFA, PhD, is Professor of Theatre at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (USA), where he also teaches interdisciplinary film, arts, architecture, and religion courses. He has authored six previous books: Mapping Global Theatre Histories (2019), Beast-People Onscreen and in Your Brain: The Evolution of Animal-Humans from Prehistoric Cave Art to Modern Movies (2016), Inner Theatres of Good and Evil: The Mind's Staging of Gods, Angels and Devils (2011), Ghosts of Theatre and Cinema in the Brain (2006), Theatres of Human Sacrifice: From Ancient Ritual to Screen Violence (2005), and Edges of Loss: From Modern Drama to Postmodern Theory (1998). He also co-edited, with Lisa K. Perdigao, Death in American Texts and Performances: Corpses, Ghosts, and the Reanimated Dead (2010).

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