Sidney Homan: 4 books
Comedy Acting for Theatre
The Art and Craft of Performing in Comedies
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Analysing why we laugh and what we laugh at, and describing how performers can elicit this response from their audience, this book enables actors to create memorable – and hilarious – performances.
Rooted in performance and performance criticism,Sidney Homan and Brian Rhinehart provide a detailed...
A Fish in the Moonlight
Growing Up in the Bone Marrow Unit
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
The storyteller has a fascinating place in our world. Storyteller Sidney Homan tells tales of growing up in Philadelphia in the 1940s and 50s accounts of Bruzzy the Bully;of John Crapp, the television salesman;of Leslie Doober and his rotten banana;of drunken Uncle Eddie, and of the Queen of the mushrooms....
Hitler in the Movies
Finding Der Führer on Film
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
In Hitler in the Movies: Finding Der Führer on Film, a Shakespearean and a sociologist explore the fascination our popular culture has with Adolf Hitler. What made him … Hitler? Do our explanations tell us more about the perceiver than the actual historical figure? We ask such question by viewing...
How and Why We Teach Shakespeare
College Teachers and Directors Share How They Explore the Playwright’s Works with Their Students
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
In How and Why We Teach Shakespeare, 19 distinguished college teachers and directors draw from their personal experiences and share their methods and the reasons why they teach Shakespeare. The collection is divided into four sections: studying the text as a script for performance; exploring Shakespeare...