First published in 1953, “To the Actor: On the Technique of Acting” is the famous and influential guide to acting by Russian-American actor, director, and teacher Michael Chekhov. Born in Saint Petersburg in 1891 and the nephew of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Michael Chekhov studied acting from the famed theater director Konstantin Stanislavski at the First Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre and was considered by Stanislavski to be his most brilliant student. While Chekhov was at first a...
The best jokes, gags and scenes from a true British comedy classic.‘They don't like it up 'em!’'People shout the «Don't tell him, Pike!» line at me regularly – and I didn't even say it!’ Philip Madoc.In the annals of British television, no finer example of classic comedy exists than in the shape of Dad's Army, the Home Guard-based sitcom written by veteran writers Jimmy Perry and David Croft. Although they penned many other sterling programmes, including Hi-De-Hi! and the underrated You Rang,...
The easy way to craft, polish, and get your play on stage Getting a play written and produced is a daunting process. From crystallizing story ideas, formatting the script, understanding the roles of the director stagecraft people, to marketing and financing your project, and incorporating professional insights on writing, there are plenty of ins and outs that every aspiring playwright needs to know. But where can you turn for guidance? Playwriting For Dummies helps any writer at any stage of the...
American Identities is a dazzling array of primary documents and critical essays culled from American history, literature, memoir, and popular culture that explore major currents and trends in American history from 1945 to the present. Charts the rich multiplicity of American identities through the different lenses of race, class, and gender, and shaped by common historical social processes such as migration, families, work, and war. Includes editorial introductions for the volume and for each...
Over the years, in a variety of venues, Lawrence Watt-Evans has turned his sharp, analytical, and slightly crazed mind to everything from weaponized poetry to why the Enterprise doesn't have seatbelts, and everyone from Jane Austen to Buffy Summers. Collected for the first time are twenty-three of these essays, discussing icons of comic books, television, novels, movies, and much more!
Книга, написанная автором уникального курса «Психология для сценаристов» Татьяной Салахиевой-Талал, знакомит с концепциями некоторых психологических школ и направлений, переосмысленными с точки зрения кинодраматургии. Среди них теории Фрейда и Юнга, оказавшие громадное влияние на киноискусство, гештальт-подход, которому в книге уделено особое внимание, а также новейшие мировые исследования в области социокультурных феноменов, знание которых позволит создавать актуальные для современного зрителя...
An authoritative guide to African cinema with contributions from a team of experts on the topic A Companion to African Cinema offers an overview of critical approaches to African cinema. With contributions from an international panel of experts, the Companion approaches the topic through the lens of cultural studies, contemporary transformations in the world order, the rise of globalization, film production, distribution, and exhibition. This volume represents a new approach to African cinema...
Данная книга посвящена проблемам режиссуры, творческим вопросам, таким как: сценический стиль, ритм, композиция, проблема жанра в спектакле, а также сценическая условность – т.е. самым сложным и спорным моментам в работе режиссера над пьесой. Эта книга полностью отражает индивидуальность и точку зрения автора. Несмотря на то, что выводы автора в данной книге не доведены до полного охвата темы, они представляют значительный интерес для тех, кто собирается связать или уже связал свою жизнь с...
«Работа актера над собой» – книга, ставшая своеобразной библией сценического мастерства, с помощью которой изучают свое искусство актеры всего мира. Ведь именно в ней великий учитель полностью и подробно изложил названную его именем актерскую систему, раз и навсегда изменившую саму основу представлений о том, как совершается перевоплощение артиста в его сценический персонаж.