Performance Theory: Emotion

Fall 2004

Tuesday/Thursday 1:00-2:50pm

Location: MAB 125

Instructor

Professor Bill Tomlinson

Email: wmt@uci.edu

Office: CS 430A

Office Phone: (949) 824-9333

Office Hours: Thursday 3:00-5:00pm in CS 430A or by appointment.

Course Web Site: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~wmt/courses/EmotionF04/

This document: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~wmt/courses/EmotionF04/EmotionF04Syllabus.html

Overview

An in-depth course on the phenomenon of emotion in humans. Topics include the biological basis of emotion; methods of modeling emotion; the relationship between emotion, social relationships and stories; and the various manifestations of emotion in dramatic performances. Readings will relate emotion to a wide range of disciplines including acting, directing, design, cinematography, animation, literature, artificial intelligence, neurology, biology and psychology. A substantial final project will give students the opportunity to explore an emotion-related topic of their choice.

Schedule

Week

Class Date

Topic

Readings Due

Assignments

1

Sept 28

Introduction

None

 

1

Sept 30

History of Emotion

Aristotle

Schechner 1

 

2

Oct 5

Biology of Emotion

Darwin

LeDoux

 

2

Oct 7

Human Emotion

Damasio

Schroeder et al.

 

3

Oct 12

Modeling Emotion

Ekman

Russell & Mehrabian

 

3

Oct 14

Simulating Emotion

Breazeal & Brooks Braitenberg

 

4

Oct 19

Recognizing and Eliciting Emotion

Picard

Play of your choice

 

4

Oct 21

Diagramming Emotion

None

Diagramming assignment due in class

5

Oct 26

Emotion and Social Relationships

Reeves & Nass

Buck

 

5

Oct 28

Lecture by Richard Schechner, location TBA

Schechner 2

 

6

Nov 2

Emotion, Culture and Gender

Mesquita & Frijda

Brody

 

6

Nov 4

Final Project Proposals

None

Final Project proposal due in class

7

Nov 9

Emotion,Time and Interactivity

McCloud
Weizenbaum

 

7

Nov 11

Veteran’s Day

No Class

 

8

Nov 16

Emotion, Acting & Animation

Diderot

Stanislavski

Cohen

Lasseter

 

8

Nov 18

Staging, Lighting, Cinematography

Calahan

Malkiewicz

Mackendrick

 

9

Nov 23

Sound, Smell, Taste, Touch

Thompson

 

9

Nov 25

Thanksgiving Day

No Class

 

10

Nov 30

Presentation of Final Projects

None

Final Project due in class

10

Dec 2

Presentation of Final Projects

None

Assignments:

Each of the three assignments has a corresponding in-class presentation component.  The practical/written components of the assignments are due by email (wmt@uci.edu) prior to the beginning of the class in which they will be presented.

Readings

All readings will be available online at least five days prior to their due date.  Those that are not available elsewhere on the web will be posted at: http://antpac.lib.uci.edu/search/p?SEARCH=Tomlinson

You will need a UCI library card and PIN to access this content.

 

Aristotle: Rhetoric.  http://www.public.iastate.edu/~honeyl/Rhetoric/twoindex.html

Please read Chapter II-1 and one of Chapters II-2 to II-11 (decided in class)

 

Schechner 1: R. Schechner. “Rasaesthetics.” The Drama Review, Vol. 45 Num. 3. 2001.

(p.27-38)


Darwin: C. Darwin. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 1965 (originally published 1872). Chapter 4, p. 83-114 http://wyllie.lib.virginia.edu:8086/perl/toccer-new?id=DarExpr.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=4&division=div1

 

LeDoux: J. LeDoux. The Emotional Brain. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1996. Ch. 1. p. 11-21

 

Damasio: A. Damasio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1994. p. 165-180

 

Schroeder et al.: D. Schroeder, L. Penner, J. Dovidio, and J. Piliavin, The Psychology of Helping and Altruism. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995. p. 63-84

 

Ekman: P. Ekman. “Basic Emotions.” In T. Dalgleish and T. Power (Eds.) Handbook of Cognition and Emotion. 1999. Sussex, U.K.: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. p. 45-60 http://www.paulekman.com/pdfs/basic_emotions.pdf

 

Russell & Mehrabian: J. Russell and A. Mehrabian. “Evidence for a Three-Factor Theory of Emotions.” Journal of Research in Personality. 1977. p. 273-294

 

Breazeal & Brooks: C. Breazeal and R. Brooks. Robot Emotion: A Functional Perspective. in J.-M. Fellous and M. Arbib eds. Who Needs Emotions: The Brain Meets the Robot, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005.

 

Braitenberg: V. Braitenberg, Vehicles. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984. p. 1-19

 

Picard: R. Picard, Affective Computing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. p. 21-45

 

Play of your choice:  See diagramming assignment sheet.

 

Reeves & Nass: B. Reeves and C. Nass, The Media Equation. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1996. p. 19-35

 

Buck: R. Buck, The Communication of Emotion. New York: Guilford Press, 1984. p. 29-46 


Schechner 2: R. Schechner, Performance Theory. London: Routledge Classics, 1988/2003. p. 235-289

 

Mesquita & Frijda: B. Mesquita, & N. Frijda. Cultural variations in emotions: A review. Psychological Bulletin, 112, 1992. p. 179-204

 

Brody: L. Brody. Gender and Emotion: Beyond Stereotypes. Journal of Social Issues, 53 (2). 1997. p. 369-393

 

McCloud: S. McCloud, "Time Frames (from Understanding Comics)," in The New Media Reader, N. Wardrip-Fruin and N. Montfort, Eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993/2003. p.711-735

 

Weizenbaum: J. Weizenbaum, "Computer Power and Human Reason," in The New Media Reader, N. Wardrip-Fruin and N. Montfort, Eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1976/2003. p.367-375

 

Diderot: D. Diderot, "The Paradox of Acting. (originally published 1830)," in Masks or Faces, W. Archer, Ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 1957.

 

Stanislavski: C. Stanislavski, Creating a Role. New York: Theatre Arts Books/Methuen, 1961. p. 44-62

 

Cohen: R. Cohen, Theater, Brief Version. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2003. p.53-72

 

Lasseter: J. Lasseter, "Principles of Traditional Animation Applied to 3D Computer Animation," Computer Graphics, vol. 21, no. 4, 1987. p. 35-44

 

Calahan: S. Calahan, "Storytelling through Lighting," presented at SIGGRAPH 96 Course Notes, Pixel Cinematography, 1996. p. 11-39

 

Malkiewicz: K. Malkiewicz, Film Lighting. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. p. 1-9

 

Mackendrick: A. Mackendrick, "Filmmaking Handout," 1988. 5 pages.

 

Thompson: B. Thompson, "Evoking Terror in Film Scores," M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, vol. 5, no. 1, 2001. http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0203/evoking.php

Grading:

Class Participation = 25%

Diagramming Assignment = 25%

Final Project = 50% (10% for project proposal)

Computer and Network Use Policy

When working on UCI systems, you are bound by the UCI Computer and Network Use Policy: http://www.policies.uci.edu/adm/pols/714-18.html

Add/Drop

Students will not be permitted to add or drop this course after the second week of classes (Oct. 8, 5:00pm). 

Note

These are guidelines intended to help students plan their work in this course.  However, the instructor reserves the right to make changes to this syllabus over the course of the quarter.