TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adler,Stella
AU  - Kissel,Howard
TI  - The art of acting
SN  - 1557833737
U1  - 792.028 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New York
PB  - Applause
KW  - Acting
N1  - "An Applause original"--T.p. verso; "Preface by Marlon Brando"--Cover; Includes bibliographical references; Preface; Marlon Brando --; Class 1; First Steps On Stage --; Class 2; The World of the Stage Isn't Your World --; Class 3; Acting Is Doing --; Class 4; The Actor Needs to Be Strong --; Class 5; Developing the Imagination --; Class 6; Making the World of the Play Your Own --; Class 7; Getting Hold of Acting's Controls --; Class 8; Learning Actions --; Class 9; Making Actions Doable --; Class 10; Building a Vocabulary of Actions --; Class 11; Instant and Inner Justifications --; Class 12; Complicating Actions --; Class 13; Giving Actions Size --; Class 14; Understanding the Text --; Class 15; Character Elements --; Class 16; Dressing the Part --; Class 17; Learning a Character's Rhythm --; Class 18; Actors Are Aristocrats --; Class 19; Making the Costume Real --; Class 20; The Actor Is a Warrior --; Class 21; Stanislavski and the New Realistic Drama --; Class 22; Portraying Class on Stage
N2  - Stella Adler is arguably the most important teacher of acting in American history. Over her long career, both in New York and Hollywood, she offered her vast acting knowledge to generations of actors, including Marlon Brando, Warren Beatty, and Robert De Niro. The great voice finally ended in the early Nineties, but her decades of experience and teaching have been brilliantly encapsulated by Howard Kissel in the lessons in this book. The groundbreaking theories of the great acting teacher who influenced such outstanding actors as Marlon Brando, Robert DeNiro & Warren Beatty are now made available for a wide audience. This book is compiled from her voluminous class notes as well as audio & videotape of her teaching & is destined to become a classic in the fields of acting & theatre. Drawing on an archive of notebooks, transcriptions, and audiotapes of Adler's work, Kissel (cultural critic with the New York Daily News) presents the lessons and insights she brought to the craft of acting. Adler's classroom lectures are presented, and their significance is discussed. She addresses the discipline of the actor's body, mind, and imagination. She looks at the techniques for creating believable characters and bringing authenticity to the performance, and the importance of understanding time, setting and style
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