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An actor's work : a student's diary / Konstantin Stanislavski ; translated and edited by Jean Benedetti.
Van Pelt Library PN2062 .S7613 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stanislavsky, Konstantin, 1863-1938.
- Standardized Title:
- Rabota aktera nad soboĭ. English
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Method acting.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 693 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
- Contents:
- Year one: Experiencing
- An actor's work, introduction
- Amateurism
- The stage as art and stock-in-trade
- Action, 'if', 'given circumstances'
- Imagination
- Concentration and attention
- Muscular release
- Bits and tasks
- Belief and the sense of truth
- Emotion memory
- Communication
- An actor's adaptations and other elements, qualities, aptitudes and gifts
- Inner psychological drives
- Inner psychological drives in action
- The actor's inner creative state
- The supertask, throughaction
- The subconscious and the actor's creative state
- Year two: Embodiment
- Transition to physical embodiment
- Physical education
- Voice and speech
- Perspective of the actor and the role
- Tempo-rhythm
- Logic and sequence
- Physical characteristics
- The finishing touches
- Charisma
- Ethics and discipline
- The external creative state in performance
- General creative state in performance
- The 'system'.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780415422239
- 041542223X
- 9780203936153
- 0203936159
- OCLC:
- 180690047
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