Acting category: 934 books
The Working Actor
A No Bullshit Approach to Winning the Acting Game
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2015
Buckle your seatbelt. The Working Actor is unlike any other acting book you’ve ever read.
Most acting books are deadly dull. They get hung up on intellectual “intentions” and “choices.” Not this one. The Working Actor is “a gutsy, funny, straightforward, bawdy, and indispensable...
Transform Your Ad Audition!
An Actor's Guide to the Commercial Casting Process
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Actors need ads! But how do you get your foot in that studio for a casting, let alone be confirmed for the job by the director, advertising agency and client? There are only a handful of accomplished actors that book ads time and time again in such a competitive industry. Transform Your Ad Audition!...
True Acting Tips
A Path to Aliveness, Freedom, Passion and Vitality
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
True Acting Tips leads stage and screen actors on a journey of passion, intimacy, and personal investment. This isn't to say that there will not be heavy demands and a high cost, but ultimately, this book is designed to offer the clarity and encouragement to become an actor who makes a difference...
Acting Stanislavski
A practical guide to Stanislavski’s approach and legacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Stanislavski was the first to outline a systematic approach for using our experience, imagination and observation to create truthful acting. 150 years after his birth, his approach is more widely embraced and taught throughout the world – but is still often rejected, misunderstood and misapplied.
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by Bruce Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
“[A] good book filled with awesome basics for someone who it just getting into the industry.”~Rafal Cwiok“A charming introduction to the world of acting. From preparing for auditions to learning about rehearsals and stage setup, this book includes everything you'll need to know for...
by Sam Kogan
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
What is good acting? How does one create believable characters? How can an actor understand a character if they do not understand themselves?
In The Science of Acting, Sam Kogan uses his theories on the relationship between neuroscience, psychology and acting to answer these questions. Practical...
by Jonathan Pitches
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2005
Providing new insight into the well-known tradition of acting, Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting is the first book to contextualise the Stanislavsky tradition with reference to parallel developments in science. Rooted in practice, it presents an alternative perspective based on philosophy,...
by Kate McClanaghan
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
There’s a dramatic difference between having a successful career in radio and attaining a successful career in the voice-over industry. There’s a terrific difference in what you can make as well. The voice over business and achieving a comfortable level of success is a more attainable goal today...
by Victoria Duckett, David Sterritt, Julie Levinson
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Screen performances entertain and delight us but we rarely stop to consider actors’ reliance on their craft to create memorable characters. Although film acting may appear effortless, a host of techniques, artistic conventions, and social factors shape the construction of each role.
The...
Acting in Commercials
A Guide to Auditioning and Performing on Camera
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Every actor knows that working in commercials is lucrative. But many actors, trained primarily for working on the stage, have mistaken ideas about this field and lack essential on-camera experience. Now in an updated and expanded edition, Acting in Commercials is the only resource that fills all the...
Acting in the Academy
The History of Professional Actor Training in US Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
There are over 150 BFA and MFA acting programs in the US today, nearly all of which claim to prepare students for theatre careers. Peter Zazzali contends that the curricula of these courses represent an ethos that is as outdated as it is limited, given today’s shrinking job market for stage actors.
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The Art of the Actor
The Essential History of Acting from Classical Times to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
How did acting begin? What is its history, and what have the great thinkers on acting said about the art and craft of performance? In this single-volume survey of the history of acting, Jean Benedetti traces the evolution of the theories of the actor's craft drawing extensively on extracts from key...
Acting: The First Six Lessons
Documents from the American Laboratory Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Acting: The First Six Lessons was first published in 1933 and remains a key text for anyone studying acting today. These dramatic dialogues between teacher and idealistic student explore the field of acting according to one of the original teachers of Stanislavsky’s System in America.
This...
My First Scene Book: Acting Up, Acting Out, Acting Right
51 Scenes for Children
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
In new and strange situations, it can be hard to know what to do and how to act. My First Scene Book can help! And each of the 51 one-minute scenes -- from the real to the downright silly -- is just right for five- to nine-year-olds. Like all books in My First Acting Series, My First Scene Book is...