By: Dee Reynolds (Editor), Matthew Reason (Editor)

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A key interdisciplinary concept in our understanding of social interaction across creative and cultural practices, kinesthetic empathy describes the ability to experience empathy merely by observing the movements of another human being. Encouraging readers to sidestep the methodological and disciplinary boundaries associated with the arts and sciences, Kinesthetic Empathy in Creative and Cultural Practices offers innovative and critical perspectives on topics ranging from art to sport, film to physical therapy.

How does art mean? The originality of this book is to take this question, along with the larger question of how we communicate, and insist that it can only be answered through an interdisciplinary study of embodied expression. Drawing together insights from aesthetic theory, phenomenology, neuroscience, and other domains, Dee Reynolds and Matthew Reason propose a new framework for imagining how embodied subjects engage with the world, how we come to mean for one another.--Amelia Jones, McGill University, author of Perform, Repeat, Record

Acknowledgements	p. 9
Foreword	p. 11
Introduction	p. 17
Mirroring Movements: Empathy and Social Interactions Introduction	p. 29
Knowing Me, Knowing You: Austism, Kinesthetic Empathy and Applied Performance	p. 33
Kinesthetic Empathy and Movement Metaphor in Dance Movement Psychotherapy	p. 51
Affective Responses to Everyday Actions	p. 67
Kinesthetic Engagement: Embodied Responses and Intersubjectivity: Introduction	p. 87
Cinematic Empathy: Spectator Involvement in the Film Experience	p. 91
Musical Group Interaction, Intersubjectivity and Merged Subjectivity	p. 109
Kinesthetic Empathy and the Dance's Body: From Emotion to Affect	p. 121
Kinesthetic Impact: Performance and Embodied Engagement: Introduction	p. 139
Kinesthetic Empathy in Charlie Chaplin's Silent Films	p. 143
Effort and Empathy: Engaging with Film Performance	p. 157
Breaking the Distance: Empathy and Ethical Awareness in Performance	p. 175
Artistic Enquiries: Kinesthetic Empathy and Practice-Based Research: Introduction	p. 195
Re-Thinking Stillness: Empathetic Experiences of Stillness in Performance and Sculpture	p. 199
Empathy and Exchange: Audience Experiences of Scenography	p. 219
Photography and the Representation of Kinesthetic Empathy	p. 237
Technological Practices: Kinesthetic Empathy in Virtual and Interactive Environments: Introduction	p. 259
The Poetics of Motion Capture and Visualisation Techniques: The Differences between Watching Real and Virtual Dancing Bodies	p. 263
Interactive Multimedia Performance and the Audience's Experience of Kinesthetic Empathy	p. 281
Kinesthetic Empathy Interaction: Exploring the Concept of Psychomotor Abilities and Kinesthetic Empathy in Designing Interactive Sports Equipment	p. 301
Conclusion	p. 317
Notes on Contributors	p. 323
Index	p. 329
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ISBN: 9781841504919
ISBN-10: 1841504912
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 224
Published: 1st July 2012
Dimensions (cm): 23.0 x 17.4  x 2.0
Weight (kg): 0.612