Method Acting Reconsidered
Theory, Practice, Future
Published on 6. November 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-333-91547-9 (ISBN)
Description
Method acting is one of the most popular and controversial approaches to acting. 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 21st century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
334 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-91547-9 (9780333915479)
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12/2000
Palgrave Macmillan
€92.85
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Person
DAVID KRASNER is Director of Undergraduate Theater Studies at Yale University. His previous book, Resistance, Parody, and Double Consciousness in African American Theater, 1895-1910 (SMP, 1997) received the 1998 Errol Hill Award from the American Society for Theater Research.
Content
Introduction I Hate Strasberg: Method Bashing in the Academy; D.Krasner SECTION I: THEORY Acting and Answerability; M.Carlson Salvaging Strasberg at the Fin-de-Siecle; M.Gordon Just Be Yourself: Derrida, Difference, and the Meisner Technique; L.Mallory The Reality of Doing: Speech Acts in the Theatre; D.Z.Saltz The Method and the Feminist Perspectives in the Classroom and on the Stage; E.C.Stroppel Styling Method Acting: Style, Realism, and Performance; S.Standing SECTION II: PRACTICE Significant Action: Teaching a Way of Working; J.D.Giebel Teaching Method Acting in a University Setting; V.Katz Practising the Paradox: Addressing the Creative State; P.Lobdell The Method Revisited: Activities, Actions, and Living in the Body; J.Luse The Self and the Method: A Performance Artist's Approach; D.Margolin Focusing Outward: Meisner over Strasberg; B.Pope Creating a Life Observed: A Personal Journey; D.Reid The Method: Changing the Means, Preserving the Ends; D.Wiles SECTION III: FUTURE Definition: Updating Key Terms in Actor Training; R.Blair Method Acting and Technology; C.Blackinton Emotion Training and the Mind/Body Connection: Alba Emoting and the Method; P.D.Chabora Actions and the Avant-Garde: Method Acting in Non-Realistic Environments; P.S.Kassel Influences in Another Direction: Method Acting in Russia; N.Kolosova Barba and the Method: Some Comparisons; J.Perlstein Method(ical) Hybridity: Stanislavski Meets Suzuki at the fin-de-siecle; T. Donovan Smith