Improvised dialogues : emergence and creativity in conversation / R. Keith Sawyer ; foreword by Michael Silverstein.
Improvised Dialogues is the first social-scientific study of Chicago improv theater. It focuses on the collaborative verbal creativity that improvising actors use to generate their unscripted dialogues. The author spent two years as a performer, and videotaped 15 different Chicago theater groups--bo...
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Westport, Conn. :
Ablex Pub.,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction: Improvisation in Theater and Everyday Conversation; Chapter 2. Don't Shoot the Piano Player: My Encounter with Chicago Improv; Chapter 3. What Improvised Dialogue Creates: Frame and Context in Conversation Research; Chapter 4. How Improvised Dialogues Create: The Collaborative Emergence of Conversation; Chapter 5. What Actors Know: An Ethnotheory of Conversation; Chapter 6. The Freeze Games: How to Create a Frame; Chapter 7. Improv Games: How Rules Affect Improvised Dialogues.