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

• Autore: Malague Rosemary <1961-, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Disciplina: 792.082
• Soggetto topico: Method acting; Feminism and theater; Sex discrimination against women; Sexism
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: An actress prepares
• ISBN: 1-136-50389-7; 1-136-50390-0; 0-203-14467-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819140103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II