How to rehearse when there is no rehearsal : acting and the media
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- ISBN: 9780879103422
- ISBN: 0879103426
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xxii, 280 pages ; 23 cm - Publisher: New York : Limelight Editions, 2007.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-270) and indexes. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword: Thoughts about Stanislavsky and Acting Today / Robert Blumenfeld xi -- Preface: The Need for This Book xvii -- Part 1 Acting and Current Working Conditions 1 -- Chapter 1 The Stanislavsky System Explored 3 -- Chapter 2 Why Rehearse? 19 -- Commitment and Practicing Alone 19 -- Rehearsing Scenes for Class 28 -- Chapter 3 Film and Television: The End of Rehearsal 31 -- Television Commercials 35 -- Soap Opera and Nighttime Television Drama 36 -- The Situation Comedy (Sitcom) 41 -- Part 2 Rehearsing on Your Own 49 -- Introduction Developing the Process 51 -- Impulses and Instincts 59 -- Concentration and Relaxation 62 -- Substitution and Endowment 65 -- Chapter 4 Step 1: How to Read the Script 69 -- Finding the Themes 76 -- Finding the Playwright's Music 77 -- Chapter 5 Step 2: Developing the Relationships 81 -- First Readings 85 -- Revealing the Subtext 92 -- Chapter 6 Step 3: Paying Attention to the Inner Objects 95 -- Chapter 7 Step 4: Finding the Objective 103 -- Chapter 8 Step 5: Following Up on Place and Circumstances: The Here and Now 127 -- Place 127 -- Circumstances 134 -- Chapter 9 Step 6: Planning the Activity 137 -- Chapter 10 Step 7: Delving into the Prior Relationship 147 -- Chapter 11 Step 8: The Character Chart, Part 1: Writing a Preliminary Character Background 153 -- Background Questions 156 -- Chapter 12 Step 9: The Character Chart, Part 2: Deciding on the Character Traits 169 -- More about Negative Character Traits 174 -- Two Exercises 178 -- Chapter 13 Step 10: The Character Chart, Part 3: Life Drives 181 -- Chapter 14 Step 11: Becoming the Character 187 -- Essences 189 -- Complete Character Charts 201 -- Part 3 The Steps Condensed When You Have No Time: My Experience in the Media 207 -- Chapter 15 The Ideal and the Practical: Working in Film and Television 209 -- Chapter 16 The Director and the Camera 229 -- Camera Takes and How to Deal With Them 229 -- Working with Directors: Translating the Director's Language 238 -- Chapter 17 Auditions 247 -- Plays 250 -- Film 252 -- Television 255 -- Prepared Monologues 257 -- A Parting Word 263 -- About the Author and Collaborator 279. |
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