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Recognised as a classic in its field, Acting with Style continues to be an invaluable guide to the process of approaching plays. The Third Edition retains all of the significant facts, data, information, and exercises, and offers a clear and warm writing style that expresses a sensitivity to the needs of actors. *Includes multiethnic photographs that reinforce the topics and concepts throughout the text and offer more diverse visual illustrations of the timelessness and contemporary values of style. *Provides a separate chapter on the approach and work of playwright David Mamet - positioning Mamet as the link between the American tradition of realism and the European tradition of the theater of the absurd. *Provides updates and revision where appropriate to reflect contemporary theatrical and cultural thinking. *Offers a clearly defined physical methodology for approaching the creation of a character. Helps students understand how to read a text for the clues of character, which can then be translated into the creation of the character mask. *Explores progressive stages of acting with style-from an actor's first day of class through the last day of rehearsal for the performance. *Includes multiethnic photographs that reinforce the topics and concepts throughout the text and offers more diverse visual illustrations of the timelessness and contemporary values of 'style'. *Provides updates and revision where appropriate to reflect contemporary theatrical and cultural thinking.Product Identifiers
PublisherPearson Education (Us)
ISBN-139780205295821
eBay Product ID (ePID)88964028
Product Key Features
Book TitleActing with Style
AuthorSabin R. Epstein, John Harrop
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicTelevision
Publication Year1999
Dimensions
Item Height182mm
Item Width244mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorJohn Harrop, Sabin R. Epstein
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States