PRETENSE AND DISPLAY THEORIES OF THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE

• Authors: Hamilton James R.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper the author presents two competing theories of acting, the 'pretense theory' and the 'display theory'. He aims to show that we should not have as much confidence in the pretense theory as we may be tempted to have. And he hopes to show why the display theory of acting may be more attractive than the pretense theory of acting, whatever merits examining pretense may independently have for understanding the mental mechanisms underlying many of our interactions with the world and with each other.

Keywords

EN

ACTING; DISPLAY THEORY; PRETENSE THEORY; THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 632-654
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Hamilton James R.

• James R. Hamilton, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA; www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/organon

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10SKAAAA074819