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Author : Lynn M. Voskuil
Release : 2004
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 690/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Acting Naturally by : Lynn M. Voskuil
Download or read book Acting Naturally written by Lynn M. Voskuil. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voskuil argues that Victorian Britons saw themselves as "authentically performative," a paradoxical belief that focused their sense of vocation as individuals, as a public, and as a nation.
Author : David Thomson
Release : 2023-02-07
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 303/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Acting Naturally by : David Thomson
Download or read book Acting Naturally written by David Thomson. This book was released on 2023-02-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the celebrated film critic and author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, a fascinating look at some of the cinema’s finest actors and how they approach their craft "Open to any page and you’ll become enthralled by the...tales of forgotten film lore, childhood memories, sexy gossip.”—Philip Kaufman, director Meryl Streep, Marlon Brando, Anthony Hopkins, Carey Mulligan. When we watch these remarkable actors in a performance, we see only Sophie, Stanley Kowalski, Hannibal Lecter, or Cassie from Promising Young Woman. How are they able to transform our world in this way? How and why do they do what they do? In Acting Naturally, David Thomson sheds light on the actors who have shaped the film industry. He shrewdly analyzes these stars—among them, James Dean, Nicole Kidman, Denzel Washington, Louise Brooks, Riz Ahmed, Sir Laurence Olivier, Viola Davis, and Jean Seberg—revealing how a sly smile, an extra-long pause, even a small gesture of the hand can draw in an audience. And he takes us behind the scenes to examine casting and all the other moments leading up to “Action!” Through intimate anecdote, humor, and the insight born of a lifetime watching and analyzing film, Thomson explores the real reasons why we go to the movies and looks at how they influence our lives. This book is not only necessary reading for an insider’s view of the industry but also a surprising investigation of the relationship between acting and living.
Author : Randall K. Knoper
Release : 1995-01-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 197/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Acting Naturally by : Randall K. Knoper
Download or read book Acting Naturally written by Randall K. Knoper. This book was released on 1995-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Clarifies why understanding Mark Twain's writing is essential to understanding enduring patterns and problems in American culture. Conversely, it compellingly illustrates why one does not fully understand Mark Twain's work unless one has some understanding of America's preoccupation with performance, conspicuous display, and the mental sciences."--Howard Horwitz, author of "By the Law of Nature: Form and Value in Nineteenth-Century America" "In place of the strictly literary frame of reference that has previously organized the Twain canon, Knoper productively focuses on the spectrum of theatrical attitudes whereby Twain reconfigured his culture's race and gender hierarchies into the power to construct social realities differently. This work is sure to play a significant role in the reinvention of Mark Twain for the New American Studies."--Donald E. Pease, editor of "Revisionary Interventions into the Americanist Canon" "Knoper takes up quintessential aspects of Twain's writings, mind, and career. . . . [He] is brilliant in enunciating clearly and coherently ideas and attitudes that Twain either held confusedly or intimated almost unintentionally."--Louis J. Budd, author of "Our Mark Twain"
Author : Peg Kehret
Release : 1991
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 842/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Acting Natural by : Peg Kehret
Download or read book Acting Natural written by Peg Kehret. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Require no sets, props or costumes. Monologues: 7 for women, 9 for men, and 4 optional. Dialogues: 12 woman/woman and 8 man/man. Playlets: 20 with various cast.
Author : John Strasberg
Release : 1996
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 965/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Accidentally on Purpose by : John Strasberg
Download or read book Accidentally on Purpose written by John Strasberg. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). Based on his own experience and the teachings of his celebrated but distant father, Lee, John Strasberg defines the talent of becoming real in a role. He surveys the traditional partition between life and theatre, and urges actors to make it a dynamic living membrane through which vital elements may pass. John Strasberg has written his own intensely personal story about his father's work and the Strasberg dynasty. It is a painful odyssey during which he relives the often demanding role he played as son to a man who was the central father figure to a generation of American actors.
