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Professional acting is both an art and a business, and this book advises beginning actors on how to cope successfully on both fronts. Opening chapters describe the difficulties every budding actor encounters and explains basic acting techniques, which include memory exercises and methods for... read more
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First Sentence edit
You can't learn to be a great actor from a book, just as you can't teach yourself to dance, swim, do martial arts, paint, fish, tightrope-walk, or climb Everest.
Table of Contents edit
Introduction
Chapter 1: So you want to be an actor?
Chapter 2: The actor
Chapter 3: The actor's questions
Chapter 4: Creating a character
Chapter 5: The voice
Chapter 6: Movement
Chapter 7: Screen acting
Chapter 8: Acting in the moment
Chapter 9: Selling yourself
Chapter 10: Creating your own opportunities
Chapter 11: Don't give up the day job
Glossary
Index and credits
Authors & Contributors edit
- Michael Powell (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Emma Wicks (Designer)
- Claire Scully (Illustrator)
- James Tavendale (Publisher)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series, Inc.
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-7641-6358-6
Page Count: 256
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series, Inc.
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-7641-6358-6
Page Count: 256
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: 2009941266
- Dewey: 792
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