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 Author: Michael Shurtleff ISBN: 0802772404 Recommended Retail Price: $15.95 What Stanislavsky was to acting, Michael Shurtleff is to auditioning. The complete book on how to audition for the theatre.  Author: Constantin Stanislavski ISBN: 0878309837 Recommended Retail Price: $22.95 Stanislavski's simple exercises fire the imagination, and help readers not only discover their own conception of reality but how to reproduce it as well.So much mystery and veneration surrounds the writings of the great Russian teacher and director Stanislavski that perhaps the greatest surprise awaiting a first-time r...  Author: Marina Caldarone, Maggie Lloyd-Williams ISBN: 0896762521 Recommended Retail Price: $19.95 ACTIONS: The Actors' Thesaurus is a vital companion for actors in rehearsal—a thesaurus of action words to revitalize performance. Actors need actions. Actors cannot ‘act’ adjectives, they need verbs. Verbs are an aim to achieve, an action to perform. ‘Actions’ are active verbs. ‘I tempt you.’ ‘You taunt ...  Author: Judith Weston ISBN: 0941188248 Recommended Retail Price: $26.95 Directing film or television is a high-stakes oppucatiopn - the white water rafting of entertainment jobs. It captures your full attention at every moment, calling on you to commit every resource and stretch yourself to the limit. But for many directors, the excitement they feel about a new project tightens into anxiet...  Author: Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previtio, Scott Zigler ISBN: 0394744128 Recommended Retail Price: $12.00 6 working actors describe their methods and philosophies of the theater. All have worked with playwright David Mamet at the Goodman Theater in Chicago.  Author: Bruce Campbell Recommended Retail Price: $14.95 Okay, so at least you're interested enough to pick up this book and look inside. I think you and I are going to get along just fine. Life is full of choices. Right now, yours is whether or not to buy the autobiography of a mid-grade, kind of hammy actor. Am I supposed to know this guy? you think to yourself.No, and tha...  Author: Turner Classic Movies Recommended Retail Price: $19.95 Tough, sophisticated, witty, and handsome—from Rudolph Valentino to Buster Keaton, Cary Grant to Jimmy Stewart, Humphrey Bogart to Steve McQueen, each of the actors featured in this book brought a magnetic presence to the screen and made a powerful and enduring mark on film history. Produced by Turner Classic Movies, t...  Author: Bruno Latour ISBN: 0199256055 Recommended Retail Price: $30.00 Reassembling the Social is a fundamental challenge from one of the world's leading social theorists to how we understand society and the 'social'. Bruno Latour's contention is that the word 'social' as used by Social Scientists has become laden with assumptions to the point where it has become a misnomer. When...  Author: Ivana Chubbuck ISBN: 1592401538 Recommended Retail Price: $19.00 In The Power of the Actor, a Los Angeles Times bestseller, premier acting teacher and coach Ivana Chubbuck reveals her cutting-edge technique, which has launched some of the most successful acting careers in Hollywood. The first book from the instructor who has taught Charlize Theron, B...  Author: Uta Hagen ISBN: 0684190400 Recommended Retail Price: $28.00 Theoretically, the actor ought to be more sound in mind and body than other people, since he learns to understand the psychological problems of human beings when putting his own passions, his loves, fears, and rages to work in the service of the characters he plays. He will learn to face himself, to hide nothing... |