Performing Arts : Acting & Auditioning

Using historical evidence and personal accounts, Davis examines the reality of conditions for `ordinary' actresses, their working environments, employment patterns, and the reasons why acting continued as a popular though insecure profession. more...

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This guide for actors and directors develops a valid method for training performers to act from their core--whether they are cold reading, auditioning, or performing for film or television. This book teaches actors how to achieve and respond to believable and honest emotions before the camera, and it maintains that the key to a successful performance lies in how the actors relate to one another and to the circumstances. Exercises, including script examples, throughout the book give readers an easy resource for practicing the principles outlined. The Art of Film Acting applies a classic stage acting method (Stanislavsky) to the more intimate medium of performing before a camera, teaching readers to experience an emotion rather than to indicate it. more...

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An entertaining and highly illuminating account of Commedia's origins as a popular theatrical form, plus a practical and timely step-by-step guide to using commedia techniques in performance. more...

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Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor’s Work: Foreign Bodies of Knowledge redirects the intercultural debate by privileging the actor’s creative process. Original interviews illuminate how the intersection of technique, memory, and imagination manifests in actor training and intercultural performance. Ultimately, this study reassesses the meanings of intercultural embodiment onstage. more...

Price: $95.00

Unique book written by well-known and best-selling Focal author! more...

Price: $31.95