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The Nature of Expertise in Professional Acting: A Cognitive View (Expertise: Research and Applications Series)

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It makes sense that if you are an actor or are interesting in acting or are a teacher of acting you would be interested in what kinds of contemporary science are out there which could help shed light on the nature and reality of the art form in various ways. This book and the studies therein represent such an attempt from the standpoint of cognitive science.

It is nice to see one form of contemporary science take acting seriously enough to examine it, as exemplified in this book, those of us within the art form or profession should return the favor and glean what we can from what they say, have discovered, etc. in order to help better frame contemporary acting theory -personal, professional, certainly educational.

If you are not familiar with the principals and perspectives of cognitive science it might help to do a little research first (e.g. Wiki, etc.) in order to understand the perspective these studies are coming from. But aside from that, actors, and all should be very interested and delighted that these kinds of studies -albeit still far to few and infrequent -are occurring.

Give it a read.