| Description |
305 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Applause acting series |
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Applause acting series.
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| Contents |
Introduction : breaking our ideological shackles -- The psychosexual basis of acting -- Are actors neurotic? -- Acting and speech -- Acting and artistic creation -- The actor's subjectivity : the creative state -- The actor's subjectivity : finding the character -- The mind-body problem -- Emotion as process -- Approaches to acting before the modern era : how we got where we are -- Stanislavski's basic theories -- Strasberg and "affective memory" -- Other twentieth-century acting theories -- Realism and style : a semiotic view -- A humanistic actor training, centered on play production |
| Summary |
Acting in America has staggered to a dead end. Every year tens of thousands of aspiring actors pursue the Hollywood grail and chant the familiar strains of the Stanislavski "Method" in classrooms and studios across the nation. The initial liberating spirit of Stanislavski's experiments has long ago withered into rigid patterns of inhibitions and emotional introspection. According to Richard Hornby, the Method now "shackles American acting." With his iconoclastic new |
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Work, The End of Acting, Richard Hornby dismantles, tenet by tenet, the American Method as promulgated by Lee Strasberg and other pretenders to the Stanislavski dynasty. Hornby separates the myth from the Method in his exploration of Stanislavski's original initiatives and the proprietary feud over his theories which continues even today |
| Analysis |
Acting |
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Acting |
| Notes |
"An applause original"--T.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-289) and index |
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Includes index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Acteren
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Acting.
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Schauspielkunst
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Toneel
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| SUBJECT |
United States. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095330
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| LC no. |
92025202 |
| ISBN |
1557831009 |
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1557832137 (paperback) |
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9781557831002 |
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9781557832139 (paperback) |
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