
Acting for the Camera
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Culled from Tony Barr's forty years of experience as a performer, director, and acting teacher in Hollywood, this highly praised handbook provides readers with the practical knowledge they need when performing in front of the camera.
This updated edition includes plenty of new exercises for honing on-camera skills; additional chapters on imagination and movement; and fresh material on character development, monologues, visual focus, playing comedy, and working with directors. Inside tips on the studio system and acting guilds make it particularly helpful for people new to the business, and numerous anecdotes from actors such as Morgan Freeman and Anthony Hopkins and examples from current movies illustrate its many lessons. It is perfect for acting classes, workshops, all actors who work in front of the camera-and all those who want to.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- ONE: Acting
- 1: Film and Stage-Two Sides of the Same Coin
- 2: The Development of Film-Acting Styles
- 3: The Approach
- 4: Acting Defined
- 5: Listening/Sensing
- 6: The Character
- 7: Focus and Concentration
- 8: Energy
- 9: The Emotions
- 10: Spontaneity
- TWO: Working on the Role
- 11: Preparation
- 12: Facts and Conditions
- 13: Imagination
- 14: Learn the Role-Not the Lines
- Station Break
- THREE: Tools
- 15: Rhythm and Change
- 16: Dynamics
- 17: Movement
- 18: The Need
- 19: Selectivity
- 20: Personalization
- 21: Animate and Inanimate Object Images
- 22: The Nonsense: Exercise-Unorthodoxy
- 23: Comedy and Drama from the Actor's Point of View
- 24: Cold Reading and Auditions
- 25: Working with the Director
- 26: Working from the Outside In-Or Not
- 27: In a Nutshell
- FOUR: The Machinery of Film and Tape
- 28: Day One on the Set
- 29: The Motion Picture Studio and the Soundstage
- 30: Some Specifics of Film
- 31: Shooting a Scene
- 32: The Television Studio
- 33: The Multiple-Camera Show
- 34: Stunts
- FIVE: The Film/Tape Career
- 35: Beginning Your Career
- 36: Film and Television Unions for Actors
- 37: The Star
- 38: Exercises for Acting for the Camera
- Epilogue
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Praise for: Acting for the Camera
- Theater-Trained Actors
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
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