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The actor's survival handbook /

"Worried about short rehearsal time? Think that fluffing your lines will be the end of your career? Are you afraid you'll be typecast? Is there such a thing as acting too much? How should a stage actor adjust performance for a camera? And how should an actor behave backstage? The Actor...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tucker, Patrick, 1941-
Otros Autores: Ozanne, Christine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; London : Routledge, 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acting : what is it?
  • Argents
  • Amateur dramatics
  • Anecdotes and jokes
  • Attitude
  • Audience
  • Auditions
  • Battle of the sexes
  • Be yourself (Plus!)
  • Believability
  • Blowing your nose
  • Breaking up (Corpsing)
  • Business (Biz)
  • Casting directors
  • Comedy and farce
  • Commercial casting sessions
  • Commitment
  • Conservatories and drama schools
  • Consistency
  • Costumes, wigs, and shoes
  • Crew
  • Designers
  • Dialects and accents
  • Directors
  • Discussions
  • Don't ask for permission
  • Don't give up
  • Drugs
  • Editing and acting
  • Example : Al and Bob's first meeting
  • Example : Anna Christie and her dad
  • Example : broadway versus Hollywood
  • Example : brother and sister act
  • Example : Kate and corpsing
  • Example : Lady Bracknell's handbag
  • Example : Mr. and Mrs. Noah Fight
  • Example : Mr. Horner is exactly that
  • Example : Noel Coward on the phone
  • Example : Olivia's ends
  • Example : plunging in the deep end
  • Example : princely business
  • Example : signs of the times
  • Example : the silence of the lads
  • Example : valuable verbals
  • Example : you, thee-and the gold
  • Eye-to-eye contact
  • Fellow actors
  • Film versus television
  • Forgetting lines
  • Further training
  • Gear changes
  • Getting work
  • Good and bad taste
  • Hierarchy
  • Homework
  • Illness
  • Improvisation
  • Instinct versus intellect
  • Interviews
  • It's not what it used to be
  • Jobs requiring acting skills
  • Journey
  • Know your image
  • Laughter
  • Learning lines
  • Less is more?
  • Let the words do the work
  • Medieval acting
  • Melodrama acting
  • Method acting
  • Mistakes
  • Modern contemporary acting
  • Money is probably the answer
  • Movement and gestures
  • Multicamera versus single camera
  • Never say no
  • No training
  • Notes
  • Open auditions
  • Opposites
  • Outside-in-versus inside-out
  • Over the top
  • Pauses
  • Performing
  • Photographs
  • Problems
  • Producers
  • Projection
  • Properties (Props)
  • Pulling focus
  • Punctuality
  • Qualifications
  • Radio acting
  • Readings
  • Rehearsals (Long, short, or none)
  • Rehearsing
  • Rejection
  • Restoration acting
  • Resumes
  • Role-play
  • Screen acting
  • Screen cheating
  • Screen reactions
  • Screen vocal levels
  • Sex and violence
  • Shakespeare acting
  • Shakespeare : first folio
  • Shakespeare : prose or poetry
  • Shakespeare : simple or complicated
  • Shakespeare : verse
  • Shakespeare : what you call people
  • Shakespeare : wordplay
  • Shooting and acting
  • Stars
  • Starting off
  • Step-by-step
  • Style
  • Teaching acting
  • Technical and dress rehearsals
  • Technique
  • Ten-second rule
  • Text
  • The team
  • Thinking
  • Training
  • Truth
  • Typecasting
  • University courses
  • Versatility
  • Voice
  • Whatever works
  • You (Your other life)
  • Biographies.