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• Archive: Rhonda Blair - The Actor, Image, and Action: Acting and Cognitive Neuroscience [GB] 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 Stanislavsky's attempts to help the actor 'reach the unconscious by conscious means'.
• Recent developments in scientific thinking about the connections between biology and cognition require new ways of understanding many elements of human activity, including: · imagination · emotion · memory · physicality · reason.
• The Actor, Image and Action looks at how these are in fact inseparable in the brain's structure and function, and their crucial importance to an actor’s engagement with a role.