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Anatomy of performance training
\"We train because we are human and we become human because we train. This is the surprising and original conclusion of Anatomy of Performance Training, in which John Matthews shows how training is a very human response to the problems of having a body and living in the world. Using illustrative case-studies of professional practice, each chapter addresses a specific body part, offering a self-contained discussion of its symbolic and practical significance in the artistic, and commercial, activities of training. These anatomical case-studies are cross-referenced with other disciplines (such as sport, high diving, deep diving and artisan craft) to further expand our understanding of performance. Stand-alone chapters, ideal for reference, build towards an overall conclusion that the uniquely human practice of training is emerging as a new and pervasive ideology globally.Ideal for readers seeking to understand the relationship the body has with the theatre and training, or for teachers looking for a new, innovative approach to performance, Anatomy of Peformance Training is an accessible, original contribution to the philosophy of training for performance\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Performing Remains
'At last, the past has arrived! Performing Remains is Rebecca Schneider's authoritative statement on a major topic of interest to the field of theatre and performance studies. It extends and consolidates her pioneering contributions to the field through its interdisciplinary method, vivid writing, and stimulating polemic. Performing Remains has been eagerly awaited, and will be appreciated now and in the future for its rigorous investigations into the aesthetic and political potential of reenactments.' - Tavia Nyong'o, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
'I have often wondered where the big, important, paradigm-changing book about re-enactment is: Schneider's book seems to me to be that book. Her work is challenging, thoughtful and innovative and will set the agenda for study in a number of areas for the next decade.' - Jerome de Groot, University of Manchester
Performing Remains is a dazzling new study exploring the role of the fake, the false and the faux in contemporary performance. Rebecca Schneider argues passionately that performance can be engaged as what remains, rather than what disappears.
Across seven essays, Schneider presents a forensic and unique examination of both contemporary and historical performance, drawing on a variety of elucidating sources including the \"America\" plays of Linda Mussmann and Suzan-Lori Parks, performances of Marina Abramovic´ and Allison Smith, and the continued popular appeal of Civil War reenactments. Performing Remains questions the importance of representation throughout history and today, while boldly reassessing the ritual value of failure to recapture the past and recreate the \"original.\"
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An actor's craft : the art and technique of acting
\"An Actor's Craft is a handbook for acting students that provides critical approaches and guidance.Speaking passionately about the art of acting, David Krasner illuminates the multifaceted job of an actor. Combining technique with personal examples, he demonstrates how to achieve excellence in performance, how to recognize quality acting, and how to use the technique of acting in an advanced way\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Whiting Up
In the early 1890s, black performer Bob Cole turned blackface minstrelsy on its head with his nationally recognized whiteface creation, a character he called Willie Wayside. Just over a century later, hiphop star Busta Rhymes performed a whiteface supercop in his hit music video \"Dangerous.\" In this sweeping work, Marvin McAllister explores the enduring tradition of \"whiting up,\" in which African American actors, comics, musicians, and even everyday people have studied and assumed white racial identities.Not to be confused with racial \"passing\" or derogatory notions of \"acting white,\" whiting up is a deliberate performance strategy designed to challenge America's racial and political hierarchies by transferring supposed markers of whiteness to black bodies--creating unexpected intercultural alliances even as it sharply critiques racial stereotypes. Along with conventional theater, McAllister considers a variety of other live performance modes, including weekly promenading rituals, antebellum cakewalks, solo performance, and standup comedy. For over three centuries, whiting up as allowed African American artists to appropriate white cultural production, fashion new black identities through these \"white\" forms, and advance our collective ability to locate ourselves in others.
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From stage to screen : a theater actor's guide to working on camera
\"From Stage to Screen is a handbook for the professional actor packed with advice on how to make the transition and fully prepare for a TV or film role\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Starring Madame Modjeska
In 1876, Poland's leading actress, Helena Modrzejewska, accompanied by family and friends, emigrated to southern California to establish a utopian commune that soon failed. Within a year Modrzejewska made her debut in the title role of Adrienne Lecouvreur at San Francisco's California Theatre. She changed her name to Modjeska and quickly became a leading star on the American stage, where she reigned for the next 30 years. During this time, she established herself as America's most esteemed Shakespearean actress, playing opposite such celebrated actors as Edwin Booth and Maurice Barrymore. Starring Madame Modjeska traces Modjeska's fabulous life and career from her illegitimate birth in Krakow, to her successive reinventions of herself as a star in both Poland and America, and finally to her enduring legacy.
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In the studio with Joyce Piven : theatre games, story theatre, and text work for actors
\"A practical workbook on the creative process of acting that blends two major approaches to actor training - the improvisational method, and the \"Stanislavski System\"\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson: Ready for Her Close-Up shows how a
talented, self-confident actress negotiated a creative path through
seven decades of celebrity. It also illuminates a little-known
chapter in American media history: how the powerful women of early
Hollywood transformed their remarkable careers after their stars
dimmed. This book brings Swanson (1899-1983) back into the
spotlight, revealing her as a complex, creative, entrepreneurial,
and thoroughly modern woman.
Swanson cavorted in slapstick short films with Charlie Chaplin
and Mack Sennett in the 1910s. The popularity of her films with
Cecil B. DeMille helped create the star system. A glamour icon,
Swanson became the most talked-about star in Hollywood, earning
three Academy Award nominations, receiving 10,000 fan letters every
week, and living up to a reputation as Queen of Hollywood. She
bought mansions and penthouses, dressed in fur and feathers, and
flitted through Paris, London, and New York engaging in passionate
love affairs that made headlines and caused scandals.
Frustrated with the studio system, Swanson turned down a
million-dollar-a-year contract. After a wild ride making
unforgettable movies with some of Hollywood's most colorful
characters--including her lover Joseph Kennedy and maverick
director Erich von Stroheim--she was a million dollars in debt.
Without hesitation she went looking for her next challenge,
beginning her long second act.
Swanson became a talented businesswoman who patented inventions
and won fashion awards for her clothing designs; a natural foods
activist decades before it was fashionable; an exhibited sculptor;
and a designer employed by the United Nations. All the while she
continued to act in films, theater, and television at home and
abroad. Though she had one of Hollywood's most famous exit
lines--\"All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up\"--the
real Gloria Swanson never looked back.
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The actor's guide to creating a character : William Esper teaches the Meisner technique
\"Celebrated acting teacher Bill Esper's step-by-step approach to the central problem in acting -- learning to play a character -- as taught in the second year of his acting class\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Acting
Screen performances entertain and delight us but we rarely stop to consider actors' reliance on their craft to create memorable characters. Although film acting may appear effortless, a host of techniques, artistic conventions, and social factors shape the construction of each role.
The chapters inActingprovide a fascinating, in-depth look at the history of film acting, from its inception in 1895 when spectators thrilled at the sight of vaudeville performers, Wild West stars, and athletes captured in motion, to the present when audiences marvel at the seamless blend of human actors with CGI. Experts in the field take readers behind the silver screen to learn about the craft of film acting in six eras: the silent screen (1895-1928), classical Hollywood (1928-1946), postwar Hollywood (1947-1967), the auteur renaissance (1968-1980), the New Hollywood (1981-1999), and the modern entertainment marketplace (2000-present). The contributors pay special attention to definitive performances by notable film stars, including Lillian Gish, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, Beulah Bondi, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Nicholas Cage, Denzel Washington, and Andy Serkis.
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.
Actingis a volume in the Behind the Silver Screen series-other titles in the series includeAnimation;Art Direction and Production Design;Cinematography;Costume, Makeup, and Hair;Directing;Editing and Special/Visual Effects;Producing;Screenwriting; andSound.
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