| Description |
xxviii, 693 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Declan Donnellan -- Translator's foreword / Jean Benedetti -- Publisher's acknowledgements -- An Actor's Work, original draft preface [extracts] -- Year one : Experiencing -- An Actor's Work, introduction -- 1. Amateurism -- 2. The stage as art and stock-in-trade -- 3. Action, 'if', 'given circumstances' -- 4. Imagination -- 5. Concentration and attention -- 6. Muscular release -- 7. Bits and tasks -- 8. Belief and the sense of truth -- 9. Emotion memory -- 10. Communication -- 11. An actor's adaptations and other elements, qualities, aptitudes and gifts -- 12. Inner psychological drives -- 13. Inner psychological drives in action -- 14. The actor's inner creative state -- 15. The supertask, throughaction -- 16. The subconscious and the actor's creative state -- Year two : Embodiment -- 17. Transition to physical embodiment -- 18. Physical education -- 19. Voice and speech -- 20. Perspective of the actor and the role -- 21. Tempo-rhythm -- 22. Logic and sequence -- 23. Physical characteristics -- 24. The finishing touches -- 25. Charisma -- 26. Ethics and discipline -- 27. The external creative state in performance -- 28. General creative state in performance -- 29. The 'system' -- Appendices -- Endnotes -- Glossary of key terms -- Afterword / Anatoly Smeliansky. |
| Subject |
Method acting.
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| Added Author |
Benedetti, Jean.
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| ISBN |
9780415422239 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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041542223X (hardback : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
NZ1 11635966 |
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NLGGC 309390109 |
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