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Product Identifiers

PublisherAllyn & Bacon, Incorporated

ISBN-100205479804

ISBN-139780205479801

eBay Product ID (ePID)46885913

Product Key Features

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameActor in You

Publication Year2005

SubjectGeneral, Acting & Auditioning

FeaturesRevised

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPerforming Arts

AuthorRobert Benedetti

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.2 in

Item Weight9.3 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number3

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2005-051804

Dewey Edition22

TitleLeadingThe

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal792.02/8

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

Table Of ContentEach Part and Chapter concludes with "Summary." Preface. I. UNDERSTANDING ACTING. Why Study Acting? 1. What Does an Actor Do? Acting in Everyday Life The Tradition of the Actor Getting into the Tradition 2. Action in Life and in Performance. Action in Everyday Life Action and Drama Believability in Life and in Performance 3. Internal and External Action. Interactions 4. Understanding Emotion and Character. Emotion Character and the Magic If The Actor in You 5. The Actor's State of Mind . Dual Consciousness Indicating II. PREPARING YOURSELF TO ACT. The Creative State 6. Relaxation and Centering. Relaxation Finding Center 7. Breathing, Sound, and Moving from Center. Your Relationship to Gravity The Cycle of Energy 8. Creating Together. Creating a Scene III. PREPARING TO REHEARSE: ANALYZING THE SCRIPT. Discipline The Purpose of Analysis Sample Scenes A Scene of Your Own 9. Dramatic Function. Supporting Characters and Individual Scenes Function and Recognition Traits 10. Play and Scene Structure. Finding the Crisis Units and Levels of Action 11. The Given Circumstances. Who Where When What IV. REHEARSAL. Getting and Giving Notes 12. Personalization. Emotional Recall and Substitution 13. Inner Action. The Stimulus Automatic and Spontaneous Actions Choice The Inner Monologue 14. Actions and Objectives. Defining Useful Objectives Playable Actions Direct and Indirect Action: Subtext Not Doing Obstacles and Counter-Actions 15. Scenario, Score, Through-Line, and Superobjective. The Score Through-Line and Superobjective Personalizing the Superobjective 16. Final Rehearsals and Performance. Blocking Shaping and Pacing Spontaneity Emotion in Performance Evaluating Your Work Afterword: Your Sense of Purpose. Appendix A: Sample Scenes. Scene 1: From The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams Scene 2: From A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry Scene 3: From Zoot Suit by Luis Valdez Scene 4: From Cheers by Tom Reeder Appendix B: Suggested Plays and Anthologies. Plays Play Anthologies Anthologies for Students of Color Glossary. Index.

SynopsisBenedetti (U. of Nevada, Las Vegas) updates his textbook for a beginning acting class. People who secretly want to be actors can also use it in the privacy their own house. It includes examples drawn from everyday life, exercises to prepare for creative group work, an approach to text analysis, and the process of rehearsing and performing the scene, The Actor in You enhances the reader's appreciation of the art of acting by helping them realize that they already possess, in principle, the following skills: the ability to play a role, the ability to fulfill the sense of drama and to structure dramatic scenes, and the capacity to express emotion. Without losing its simplicity, directness, and enjoyable writing style, this revised and enlarged edition has benefited from helpful suggestions by teachers who have used it successfully in the classroom. Drawing exercises and examples from readers' everyday lives and from well-known films and television programs, Benedetti succeeds in deducing dramatic principles from those experiences and then applying them to everyday life for artistic purpose., The Actor in Youenhances the readerrs"s appreciation of the art of acting by helping them realize that they already possess, in principle, the following skills: the ability to play a role, the ability to fulfill the sense of drama and to structure dramatic scenes, and the capacity to express emotion. Without losing its simplicity, directness, and enjoyable writing style, this revised and enlarged edition has benefited from helpful suggestions by teachers who have used it successfully in the classroom. Drawing exercises and examples from readersrs" everyday lives and from well-known films and television programs, Benedetti succeeds in deducing dramatic principles from those experiences and then applying them to everyday life for artistic purpose.

LC Classification NumberPN2061.B392 2005