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Konstantin Stanislavskij (1863-1938) räknas som en av teaterhistoriens ledande teoretiker, men han var dessutom en framträdande praktiker, både som regissör och skådespelare. Han var också en av grundarna av den välkända Konstnärliga Teatern i Mos...

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Stella Adler was one of the 20th Century's greatest figures. She 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 acto...

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Hur skapas roller och karaktärer i tv-dramatik, film eller teater? Vad behöver en skådespelare för att kunna stå framför en publik? Och är det detsamma i dag som för hundra - eller tusen - år sedan? Denna bok är den första samlade introduktionen t...

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Recalls the tragic fates of many movie stars who believed in the dream factory called Hollywood.

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En samling monologer & texter som kan användas vid auditions eller för att slipa på sitt hantverk som skådespelare. I slutet av boken finner du även tips som hjälper dig att förbereda din text inför framförandet.

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A master actor who's appeared in an enormous number of films starring with everyone from Nicholson to Kermit the Frog Michael Caine is uniquely qualified to provide his view of making movies. This new revised and expanded edition features great ph...

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'In life, I want students to be alive and on stage I want them to be artists' Jacques Lecoq Jacques Lecoq was one of the most inspirational theatre teachers of our age. In The Moving Body, he shares with us first-hand his unique philosophy of perf...

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This updated edition of a best-selling classic shows you how to structure your visuals as carefully as a writer structures a story or composers structure their music. The Visual Story teaches you how to design and control the structure of your pro...

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This book, written in collaboration with Dennis Longwell, follows an acting class of eight men and eight women for fifteen months, beginning with the most rudimentary exercises and ending with affecting and polished scenes from contemporary Americ...

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A book of advice about long-form comedic improv from a long-time teacher. It's also an examination of how doing improv transforms you. The book gets into the mental habits you automatically acquire, and how to encourage that change. There's lots o...

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The Method Acting Exercises Handbook is a concise and practical guide to the acting exercises originally devised by Lee Strasberg, one of the Method's foremost practitioners. The Method trains the imagination, concentration, senses and emotions to...

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From the bestselling author of The Right to Speak and The Need for Words comes this revised edition of the essential guide to voice work: The Actor Speaks. Beginning with what every first-year acting student faces in class and ending with what lea...

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An Actor Prepares is the most famous acting training book ever to have been written and the work of Stanislavski has inspired generations of actors and trainers. This translation was the first to introduce Stanislavski's 'system' to the English sp...

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"It shouldn't surprise us that politicians, clerics, rock singers as well as actors queue up to train their voices under the supervision of Patsy Rodenburg. This book will explain her popularity among her pupils." - Sir Ian McKellen Prac...

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"I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living."<BR>-Larry Moss, from the Introduction <BR>When Oscar-winning actors Helen Hunt and Hilary Swank accepted the...

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A revised and updated edition of Declan Donnellan's bestselling book, a fresh and radical approach to acting by a world-famous director. 'Cuts open every generalisation about acting and draws out gleamingly fresh specifics' Peter Brook 'Explains D...

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Varför har musikalitet kommit att ses som en så central kvalitet i talteatersammanhang? Teaterregissören liknas inte sällan vid en dirigent, skådespelaren vid ett instrument, pjästexten vid ett partitur. Man talar om tonen i en replik, pulsen i en...

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This book is about joint intelligence in action. It brings together scholarship in performance studies, cognitive science, sociology, literature, anthropology, psychology, architecture, philosophy and sport science to ask how tightly knit collabor...

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The first book from the leading instructor to the stars--whose client roster includes Brad Pitt, Jim Carrey, and Halle Berry--gives every reader and aspiring actor directions to excellence.

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The door to magic is closed, but it's not locked. And now Joshua Jay, one of the world's most accomplished magicians, not only opens that door but brings us inside to reveal the artistry and obsessiveness, esoteric history, and long-whispered-abou...

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The first biography to be based on Grant's own personal papers, Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend provides a definitive account of the professional and personal life of one of Hollywood's most unforgettable, influential stars.

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Published in France in 1987, this is the book in which Lecoq first set out his philosophy of human movement, and the way it takes expressive form in a wide range of different performance traditions. He traces the history of pantomime, sets out his...

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In this follow up to his most famous book, An Actor Prepares, Stanislavski develop his influential 'system' of acting by exploring the imaginative processes at the heart of the actor's craft. Building a Character deals with the physical realisatio...

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This work has inspired the work of countless actors, directors, and writers in theatre, television and film. Spolin's improvisational techniques have changed the very nature and practice of modern theatre. This third edition updates the more than ...

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'I wish I had copies like this at Drama School. Essential notes on the language for those who will get up and speak it, not purely for those who will sit and study it. An incredibly useful tool with room on every page to make notes. Next time I'm ...

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Depicts the personal life of Harpo Marx and traces his career as a member of the Marx Brothers comedy team.

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Helps directors, actors, writers, designers, producers and executives tap into the imagination and instincts, which help them create the films they always dreamed of. This book is a material for the film, television and theatre professional.

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Stanislavski's 'system' has dominated actor-training in the West since his writings were first translated into English in the 1920s and 30s. His systematic attempt to outline a psycho-physical technique for acting single-handedly revolutionized st...

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