Method Acting Reconsidered
Theory, Practice, Future
Will be published approx. on 1. December 2000
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-333-91548-6 (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: 222 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-91548-6 (9780333915486)
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Previous edition
Book
11/2000
Palgrave Macmillan
€35.89
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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
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.