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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778909403321

Autore

Malague Rosemary <1961-, >

Titolo

An actress prepares : women and "the method" / / Rosemary Malague

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-50389-7

1-136-50390-0

0-203-14467-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

792.082

Soggetti

Method acting

Feminism and theater

Sex discrimination against women

Sexism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

An Actress Prepares Women and "the Method"; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. The "Given Circumstances"; 2. Emotional Control: Lee Strasberg as "Big Daddy" of the Method; 3. Script Analysis: Stella Adler's Feminist Subtext; 4. Exercises in Repetition: Sanford Meisner and "Instinct"; 5. Respect for the Actress: Uta Hagen on Playing Female Roles; 6. The "Magic If": Forward-Looking Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

'Every day, thousands of women enter acting classes where most of them will receive some variation on the Stanislavsky-based training that has now been taught in the U.S. for nearly ninety years. Yet relatively little feminist consideration has been given to the experience of the student actress: What happens to women in Method actor training?'An Actress Prepares is the first book to interrogate Method acting from a specifically feminist perspective. Rose Malague addresses ""the Method"" not only with much-needed critical distance, but also the crucial insid