Research Catalog

Title

Method acting reconsidered : theory, practice, future / edited by David Krasner.

Publication

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Krasner, David, 1952-

Description

312 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"Method Acting is one of the most popular and controversial approaches to acting in the United States. It has not only shaped important schools of acting, but has been a fundamental constant of all American acting. This volume explores Method Acting from a broad perspective, focusing on a point of equilibrium between the principles of the Method and its relationship to other theories of performance. By concentrating on three areas of the Method - its theory, its practice, and its future application - the great tradition of the Method will serve to inform and teach us how to approach acting and acting theory in the twenty-first century."--Jacket.

Subjects

• Method acting
• Acting
• The @method <Schauspielunterricht>

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I hate Strasberg : method bashing in the Academy / David Krasner -- Salvaging Strasberg at the fin de siècle / Marc Gordon -- The reality of doing : real speech acts in the theatre / David Z. Saltz -- Acting and answerability / Marla Carlson -- Just be yourself : Derrida, difference, and the Meisner technique / Louise M. Stinespring -- Reconciling the past and the present : feminist perspectives on the method in the classroom and on the stage / Elizabeth C. Stroppel -- Mining my own business : paths between text and self / Deb Margolin -- Standards and practices / Doug Moston -- Redefining acting : the implications of the Meisner method / Brant L. Pope -- Significant action : a unifying approach to the art of acting / Jean Dobie Giebel -- Burdens of representation : the method and the audience / David Wiles -- Practicing the paradox : addressing the creative state / Peter Lobdell -- The heart as center : entering the body and the creative state / James Luse -- The method and the computational theory of the mind / Rhonda Blair -- Random acts : the method and nonrealistic theatre / Paul S. Kassel -- Emotion training and the mind/body connection : Alba emoting and the method / Pamela D. Chabora -- Method(ical) hybridity : Stanislavsky meets Suzuki : an interview with Steve Pearson and Robyn Hunt / Terry Donovan Smith -- The paradox of the method actor : rethinking the Stanislavsky legacy / Dennis C. Beck -- The actors studio / Doug Moston -- The neighborhood playhouse / C.C. Courtney -- The Stella Adler conservatory / Mark Hammer.

ISBN

• 0312223056
• 9780312223052
• 0312223099
• 9780312223090
• 0333915488
• 9780333915486
• 033391547X
• 9780333915479

LCCN

^^^00035269^

OCLC

• 43684648
• SCSB-11657727

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library