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Acting (re)considered : a theoretical and practical guide
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Acting (re)considered : a theoretical and practical guide

Author: Phillip B Zarrilli
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Series: Worlds of performance.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 2nd edView all editions and formats
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This is an exceptionally wide-ranging collection of theories on acting, ideas about body and training, and statements about the actor in performance.

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Phillip B Zarrilli
ISBN: 0415262992 9780415262996 041526300X 9780415263009
OCLC Number: 50149651
Description: xx, 396 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents: General introduction : between theory and practice / Phillip B. Zarrilli --
Part I : Theories of and Meditations on Acting --
Introduction / Phillip B. Zarrilli --
The actor's presence : three phenomenal modes / Bert O. States --
On acting and not-acting / Michael Kirby --
"Just be your self" : logocentrism and difference in performance theory / Philip Auslander --
The actor's emotions reconsidered : a psychological task-based perspective / Elly Konijn --
Part II : (Re)considering the body and training --
Introduction / Phillip B. Zarrilli --
An amulet made of memory : the significance of exercises in the actor's dramaturgy / Eugenio Barba --
Meyerhold's biomechanics / Mel Gordon --
Etienne Decroux's Promethean mime / Deidre Sklar --
Actor training in the neutral mask / Sears A. Eldredge and Hollis W. Huston --
Bali and Grotowski : some parallels in the training process / I. Wayan Lendra --
Culture is the body / Tadashi Suzuki --
My bodies : the performer in West Java / Kathy Foley --
"On the edge of a breath, looking" : cultivating the actor's bodymind through Asian martial/meditation arts / Phillip B. Zarrilli --
The Gardzienice Theatre Association of Poland / Paul Allain --
Effector patterns of basic emotions : a psychophysiological method for training actors / Susana Bloch, Pedro Orthous and Guy Santibañez-H --
Part III : (Re)considering the actor in performance --
Introduction / Phillip B. Zarrilli --
Brecht and the contradictory actor / John Rouse --
Dario Fo : the roar of the clown / Ron Jenkins --
Forum theatre / Augusto Boal --
Resisting the "organic" : a feminist actor's approach / Lauren Love --
Rachel Rosenthal creating her selves / Eelka Lampe --
Task and vision : Willem Dafoe in LSD / Philip Auslander --
David Warrilow : creating symbol and cypher / Laurie Lassiter --
Robert Wilson and the actor : performing in Danton's Death / Ellen Halperin-Royer --
Anna Deavere Smith Part I : The word becomes you : an interview by / Carol Martin --
Anna Deavere Smith Part II : Acting as incorporation / Richard Schechner.
Series Title: Worlds of performance.
Other Titles: Acting reconsidered
Responsibility: [edited by] Phillip B. Zarrilli.
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