Acting

  • Acting: An International Encyclopedia
    By Beth Osnes, Sam Gill

    La Quinta Tempo- rado (The Fifth Season, 1966), was a production in which a farm contractor was satirized by worker-performers. Chicano theater in general developed ... New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985; Garza, Roberto J., ed.

  • Acting: Onstage and Off
    By Robert Barton

    —Philip Seymour Hoffman If I play the bad guy, I will have to find something likable about him. And if I play the good guy, I'll have to find his mistakes, his flaws. —Mads Mikkelson We're just trying to tell stories and connect with ...

  • Acting: An Introduction
    By Derek Bowskill

    Emphasizes specific skills needed on the stage, relates these skills to everyday life, and includes practice exercises and techniques.

  • Acting: An Introduction to the Art and Craft of Playing
    By Paul Kassel

    This text examines the underlying issues of acting and describes potential approaches to meet these challenges. Practical, experiential examples of applying the vocabulary are provided, but the book is not overloaded with exercises.

  • Acting
    By Claudia Springer, Julie Levinson

    Harry M. Benshoff, “Movies and Camp,” in American Cinema of the 1960s: Themes and Variations, ed. ... Role-Playing, and the Western as Performance Art,” in Guiltless Pleasures: A David Sterritt Film Reader (Jackson: University Press of ...

  • Acting
    By John Harrop

    John Harrop examines how we think and speak about acting.

  • Acting: The First Six Lessons
    By Richard Boleslavsky

    The classic text on the craft of Method acting by the founder of The American Laboratory Theatre.

  • Acting: Year One
    By Rodney B. Whatley

    With that in mind, if the character did not want something, they would not speak. Since the energy of the play is positive, the character's voice reflects the expectation of victory, and so the character's voice need not be so infused ...

  • Acting: Advanced Techniques for the Actor, Director, and Teacher
    By Terry Schreiber

    Honed by the author's 35 years of teaching, this advanced book offers different warm-up exercises concentrating on the actor's sense of smell, sound, sight, and touch; sensory tools for conveying the climate and environment of the text; ...

  • Acting: A Practical Guide to Pursuing the Art
    By Jason Skog

    acting coaches, 10, 11 Actors Equity Association, 39 agents, 4, 23, 38–39, 45 American Association of Community Theater, 13–14 American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), 39 Association of Talent Agents (ATA), ...

  • Acting: The First Six Lessons
    By Richard Boleslavsky

    Six essays on the fundamentals of acting, presented in dialogue form, offer dramatic students an unusual introduction to their art

  • Acting: Onstage and Off
    By Robert Barton

    ACTING: ONSTAGE AND OFF demonstrates how offstage performance can be effectively adapted for the theatre, as well as how onstage training can be applied toward leading a full life outside...

  • Acting
    By Barton

    Demonstrating how offstage performance can be effectively adapted for the theatre, as well as how onstage training can be applied toward leading a full life outside the theatre, ACTING: ONSTAGE AND OFF, International Edition is a humorous ...

  • Acting: Make it Your Business : Avoid Mistakes and Achieve Success as a Working Actor
    By Paul Russell

    "ACTING: Make It Your Business, written by a veteran casting director, puts the power to land jobs and thrive in any medium - stage, film, TV, or the Internet -...

  • Acting
    By Claudia Springer, Julie Levinson

    In six original essays, the contributors to this volume illuminate the dynamic role of acting in the creation and evolving practices of the American film industry.

  • Acting: The Basics
    By Bella Merlin

    ... personality into the character or do I bring the elements of the fictional character into my own body and psyche?' Or, as William Archer (1856–1924) – critic, philosopher and author of Masks or Faces? A Study of the Psychology of Acting ...

  • Acting: The Basics
    By Bella Merlin

    ... Performance Practitioners, Abingdon and New York: Routledge. Chamberlain, F. and B. Sweeney (eds.) (2022) The Routledge Companion to Studio Performance Practice, Abingdon and New York: Routledge. Chamberlain , F. and R. Yarrow ( 2002 ) ...

  • Acting: Basic Skills
    By J.M. Salter

    The text is designed to give the student necessary skills before embarking upon scene analysis and self-study. Instructors can use this book as a supplement or a primary textbook for a beginning acting laboratory class.

  • Acting: Onstage and Off
    By Robert Barton

    Barton's friendly, humorous and conversational writing style makes this a particularly student friendly text.

  • Acting: Onstage and Off
    By Robert Barton

    Barton's humorous and conversational writing style makes this a particularly student-friendly text.