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Improvising out loud : my life teaching Hollywood how to act / Jeff Corey with Emily Corey ; foreword by Leonard Nimoy ; afterword by Janet Neipris.
Van Pelt Library PN2287.C6165 A3 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Corey, Jeff, 1914-2002, author.
- Corey, Emily, 1950- author.
- Series:
- Screen classics (Lexington, Ky.)
- Screen classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Corey, Jeff, 1914-2002.
- Corey, Jeff.
- Actors--United States--Biography.
- Actors.
- Acting teachers.
- United States.
- Acting teachers--United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 265 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2017]
- Contents:
- Part I How TO live
- 1 Dreams of Acting 7
- 2 Hope 17
- 3 California 25
- 4 Hollywood at Its Finest 30
- 5 The War Ends 36
- 6 Galileo 43
- 7 Maelstrom 45
- 8 The Possibilities Narrow 47
- 9 The Stage Society 59
- 10 It Arrives 65
- 11 Cheremoya Mint-Theater 77
- 12 Battalions of Trouble 81
- 13 The Act of Teaching 88
- 14 Refining the Approach 93
- 15 Treading Water 96
- 16 The Doors Open 101
- 17 England 104
- 18 Breaking Down the List 107
- 19 Coming Home 112
- 20 Manila 119
- 21 The Greater Connections 122
- 22 Celebrity versus Acting 125
- 23 Innocents Abroad 130
- 24 Exits and Entrances 134
- 25 The Past as Prologue 136
- Part II How to Act
- 26 Infernal Methodists 153
- 27 Hooks, Lines, and Other Sinkers 158
- 28 True Grit 163
- 29 Styles, Isms, and Other Limitations 168
- 30 Be Yourself 173
- 31 Thematic Unity and How to Prepare 178
- 32 Emotional Strangulation 183
- 33 Inner Monologue, Stream of Consciousness, and Free Association 187
- 34 Assumptions 196
- 35 Words, Words, Words 202
- 36 Pathos-Logic 208
- 37 Mythology and Postcards 212
- 38 Metaphors, Opposites, and Details 215
- 39 The Mystique of Acting for Stage and Film 219
- Part III Études-The Acting Exercises.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813169835
- 0813169836
- OCLC:
- 959038619
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