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Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
An invaluable resource for anyone wanting his or her acting to matter, this groundbreaking guide defies most modern acting methods by rejecting emotion as an acting tool. With the advice in this book, actors will see beyond the prevailing "objective-obstacle" approach and look primarily to the text the playwright provides. Actors learn how to dissect a text for key words and phrases, as well as how to score a script, find proper tempo and rhythm,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
So you think you want to be on the stage? In this book, young readers can learn the skills required to be an actor in a school or community theater production, how an actor goes about his or her craft, and what real job skills can be learned from acting. Included are sidebars on someone who transitioned from acting to the business world and how actors overcame a mistake.
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
How to cope with the realities of life as an actor-if you don't laugh, you'll cry
In-depth interviews with actors, agents, casting directors. In this hip, warts-and-all look at acting, author Jason Pugatch shares his insights as a working "day player" to give an unvarnished look at theater, film, and television: how to be "discovered," what to expect from training programs, the grunt work of starting a career, how to keep going despite constant rejection,...
6) Acting dogs
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Explains what an acting dog is and explores the different ways these dogs work and train.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of Randall Kennedy's Nigger and Shelby Steele's The Content of Our Character, Acting White demonstrates how the charge that any African-American who is successful, well mannered, or well educated is "acting white," is a slur that continues to haunt blacks. Ron Christie traces the complex history of the phrase, from Uncle Tom's Cabin to the tensions between Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X to Bill Cosby's controversial NAACP...
12) Acting out
Author
Series
Vet volunteers volume 14
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Zoe is unhappy about leaving Hollywood to live with her cousin, Maggie, and grandmother, Dr. Mac, in Ambler, Pennsylvania, while her mother is away on a film shoot, but soon gets involved in a suspected case of antifreeze poisoning.
15) Acting the part
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Queer actor Lily Ashton has found fame playing lesbian warrior Morgantha on the hit TV show Galaxy Spark. Lily knows how little representation queer girls have, so when the showrunners reveal that Morgantha's on-screen love interest, Alietta, is going to be killed off, Lily orchestrates an elaborate fake-dating scheme with the standoffish actress who plays her, to generate press and ensure a happy ending for the #Morganetta ship. But while playing...
17) Acting skills
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Provides readers with acting techniques, presents different kinds of stage shows, and explains how to create costumes and apply makeup. Encourages readers to practice acting skills to hone their performance skills. Lists potential careers that actors and performers have"--Provided by publisher.
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