"Acting: The First Six Lessons" was first published in 1933 and remains a key text for anyone studying acting today. These dramatic dialogues between teacher and idealistic student explore the field of acting according to one of the original teachers of Stanislavsky's System in America. This new edition of an essential text is edited by Rhonda Blair and supplemented for the ver...(展开全部)

How is social action related to aesthetics, and anthropology to theatre? What is the meaning of such concepts as "work," "play, "liminal," and "flow"? In this highly influential book, Turner elaborates on ritual and theatre, persona and individual, role-playing and performing, taking examples from American, European, and African societies for a greater understanding of culture ...(展开全部)

How is social action related to aesthetics, and anthropology to theatre? What is the meaning of such concepts as "work," "play, "liminal," and "flow"? In this highly influential book, Turner elaborates on ritual and theatre, persona and individual, role-playing and performing, taking examples from American, European, and African societies for a greater understanding of culture ...(展开全部)

In this richly detailed study, James Naremore focuses on the work of film acting, showing what players contribute to movies. Ranging from the earliest short subjects of Charles Chaplin to the contemporary features of Robert DeNiro, he develops a useful means of analyzing performance in the age of mechanical reproduction; at the same time, he reveals the ideological implications...(展开全部)

Debuting it its first edition, Acting: The Gister Method moves from the beginning process of establishing character and given circumstances, through Gister's unique principle of action, and into step-by-step examples of applying the ideas to plays, scenes and monologues. Along with a reader-friendly breakdown of the theoretical aspect of his method, the book contains many down-...(展开全部)

斯科特‧克里斯蒂安松（Scott Christianson），纽约州立大学阿尔巴尼分校博士，并曾于哥伦比亚大学新闻学院研究调查报导。同时也是一位优秀的作家，著有许多杰出而畅销的非虚构类书籍，如《改变世界的100张草图：从革新医学的人体解剖图到颠覆音乐产业的iPod原型》等。