Method Acting Reconsidered
Theory, Practice, Future
Published on 12. June 2019
VIII, 312 pages
978-1-349-62271-9 (ISBN)
Description
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 insightful 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. David Krasner has gathered together some of the most well-known theater scholars and acting teachers to look at the Method. By concentrating on three areas of the Method - its theory, practice, and future application - the collection will serve to inform and teach us how to approach acting and acting theory in the 21st century.
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Half-Title
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbeviations
- Introduction
- 1 I Hate Strasberg Method Bashing in the Academy
- I. Theory
- 2.Salvaging Strasberg at the Fin de Siecle
- 3. The Reality of Doing: Real Speech Acts in the Theatre
- 4. Acting and Answerability
- 5. Just Be Yourself: Derrida, Difference, and the Meisner Technique
- 6. Reconciling the Past and the Present: Feminist Perspectives on the Method in the Classroom and on the Stage
- II. Practice
- 7. Mining My Own Business: Paths between Text and Self
- 8. Standards and Practices
- 9. Redefining Acting: The Implications of the Meisner Method
- 10. Significant Action: A UnifYing Approach to the Art of Acting
- 11. Burdens of Representation: The Method and the Audience
- 12. Practicing the Paradox: Addressing the Creative State
- 13. The Heart as Center: Entering the Body and the Creative State
- III. Future
- 14. The Method and the Computational Theory of the Mind
- 15. Random Acts: The Method and Nonrealistic Theatre
- 16. Emotion Training and the Mind/Body Connection: Alba Emoting and the Method
- 17. Method(ical) Hybridity: Stanislavsky Meets Suzuki: An Interview with Steve Pearson and Robyn Hunt
- 18. The Paradox of the Method Actor: Rethinking the Stanislavsky Legacy
- IV. Method Schools
- 19. The Actors Studio
- 20. The Neighborhood Playhouse
- 21. The Stella Adler Conservatory
- Contributors
- Index
