Interchangeable parts : acting, industry, and technology in US theater / Victor Holtcamp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holtcamp, Victor, 1973- author.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

Theater: theory/text/performance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Acting--Study and teaching--United States--History.

Acting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2019.

Summary:

"While Hollywood has long been called 'The Dream Factory', and theatrical entertainment more broadly has been called 'The Industry', the significance and ramifications of these names has rarely been explored. Far from innocent metaphors, Interchangeable Parts illuminates the striking overlaps between industrial rhetoric and practice and the development of theatrical and cinematic techniques for rehearsal and performance. Drawing from interviews, archives, and close readings of the textual legacy of major and lesser-known teachers and theoreticians, Holtcamp narrates the story of how actors learned to learn to act, and what that process, for both stage and screen, owed to the interchangeable parts and mass production revolutions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."

Contents:

Introduction: immune to luck

A dream of scales

Taylor and the Experimental Theatre Company, Inc

Cogs in the wheel

"Are you willing to work hard?": chasing silent screen success

I have this chart and it explains all of acting

MGM University: learning to play in Hollywood

"Oh, yes, you can teach acting"

Four teachers: Strasberg, Adler, Meisner, and Hagen

Epilogue: brave new stage.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 360-379).

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472125760

0472125761