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The philosophical actor : a practical meditation for practicing theatre artists /

There have been many books published on acting, actor training, and practical theories for preparing for a role, but none of these books have ever looked philosophically at the language and the concepts that we use when we talk about acting. The Philosophical Actor is the first attempt to grapple wi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Soto-Morettini, Donna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK ; Chicago, USA : Intellect, Ã2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover13;
  • Preliminary Pages
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Playing philosophy
  • The discontents of the acting studio
  • Chapter 1: Am I ACTING?
  • True for who(m)?
  • Beyond boring relativism
  • What is acting?
  • The 'working' actor
  • Art and craft
  • That abstract thing beyond technique
  • The beautiful actor
  • Summary
  • Chapter 2: What Was I Thinking?
  • 'Conscious' performance
  • The actor and the 'swing thought'
  • Who am I anyway?
  • Monkeys, mirrors, peanuts8230;
  • Getting the trope/thought right
  • Summary
  • Chapter 3: How Am I Feeling?
  • The neutral walk
  • Emotion and imagination
  • Like the town of Brigadoon ...
  • Duse was a woman
  • 8216;Mindblindness
  • From 'embodied thinking' to 'display'
  • From primary to social
  • Summary
  • Chapter 4: What Were YOU Thinking?
  • Getting out of our heads ...
  • The psychological toy box
  • So many psychologies
  • Where do we start?
  • Psychology and survival
  • Rational actors
  • Summary
  • Chapter 5: Where Am I?
  • Actors are not green
  • So you want to be a selective quasi-amnesiac?
  • The Orient(al) Express(iveness)
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.