Acting is for you! Whether you are a beginner or have had experience in acting, you can have some fun with this book. "Act It Out" is divided into two parts, the first devoted to your own acting, and the second to puppet performances. Included are "Acting Games", "Pantomime Games", "Pantomime Plays", "Dramatic Stunts", "Tableaux", "Plays" and "Pageants", followed by directions for making & using several kinds of puppets and marionettes, with plays for them to act out. More than 100 detailed & amusing pictures will help you to follow the easy directions.
Hollywood Album #2 Lives of Hollywood Stars from the Pages of the New York Times
Author: ISBN: 0-405-10311-5
Pages: Format: Hardcover Publisher: Ayer Co Pub Published: June 1977 Condition:
Price: USD $1.99
A Practical Handbook for the Actor
Authors: Bruder, Melissa / Cohn, Lee Michael / Olnek, Madeleine / Pollack, Nathaniel Previto ISBN: 0-394-74412-8
6 working actors describe their methods and philosophies of the theater. All have worked with playwright David Mamet at the Goodman Theater in Chicago.
How to Be a Working Actor The Insider's Guide to Finding Jobs in Theater, Film & Television
Authors: Henry, Mari Lyn / Rogers, Lynne ISBN: 0-8230-8328-4
Book Description: This celebrated survival guide for actors is still considered "the Bible of the Biz"-the most comprehensive book on the business of acting, informed by an inside view of how casting decisions are actually made-and it has now been updated and expanded to cover new on-line ways actors can promote their picture, rsum and video clips; interviewing and auditioning tips for the new crop of young actors; enhancing one's image; and finding jobs in emerging markets. Of course, the book still draws from dozens of industry professionals for authoritative advice on financial survival, networking, meeting agents and casting directors, the performing unions, selecting a wardrobe, studying a role-all the essential information actors have steadily relied on since 1987. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Theater Careers A Comprehensive Guide to Non-Acting Careers in the Theater
Card catalog description: Discusses backstage careers in the theater such as those of producer, manager, director, press agent, casting director, musician, lighting designer, propertyman, carpenter, and dresser. Includes interviews with persons working in the various fields.
Granta 86: Film The Magazine of New Writing
Author: Jack, Ian ISBN: 1-929001-16-9
Pages: 254 Format: Paperback Publisher: Grove Press, Granta Published: July 26, 2004 Condition:
Price: USD $1.99
Granta goes to the movies, including Roger Lewis on Peter Sellers, Pankaj Mishra in Bombay, and the stories of the people who fell from stardom in Hollywood.
Film School Confidential The Insider's Guide to Film Schools
Authors: Kelly, Karin / Edgar, Tom ISBN: 0-399-52339-1
Amazon.com: Thinking about going to film school? Don't send in that application just yet--first read this book, the definitive guide to film schools around the country. The 26 institutions reviewed are rated according to the quality and accessibility of their equipment, the kind of films their faculty encourage students to make ("industry," "independent," "experimental"), and cost. The authors discuss the schools' programs in detail, advise readers about whether film school is the right choice for them, provide tips about getting into the programs, and describe what to expect once film school begins. Karin Kelly and Tom Edgar's prose is spirited and their entertaining introductory portrait of the state of American filmmaking will interest anyone who cares about contemporary movies. An informative and amusing glossary closes the volume, which explains why no one should try to lift an ARRI kit by the handle, why "experimental film" is just another word for "cinematic masturbation," and why no good movie script ever contained the line, "you just don't get it, do you?"
Book Description: Now completely revised-all there is to know on getting into the right schools and making the experience count. This completely revised edition of Film School Confidential continues to offer the inside scoop on every major film school program in the country. A must-have guide for students who are considering applying to film school, this book provides more than 20 profiles of the best film school programs across the country. Covering such key areas as curriculum, student body, reputation, and employment options for film school grads, the authors provide solid, objective information on each program as well as snippets from interviews with students and faculty members.
The Fireside Companion to the Theatre
Author: Mordden, Ethan ISBN: 0-671-62553-5
Pages: 352 Format: Paperback Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books Published: November 1988 Condition:
Price: USD $1.99
"A Fireside book." "Featuring photographs from the Lincoln Center Library of the Performing Arts' Theatre Collection, New York Public Library." Includes index.
The Complete Book of Scriptwriting
Author: Straczynski, J. Michael ISBN: 0-89879-512-5
Amazon.com: Working writer/ producer Straczynski has revised his 1981 text -- a standard in many institutions -- and brought it into the '90s, with updates on fluctuating markets, speculation about opportunities in CD-ROMs and anecdotage about Writers' Guild strikes that have occurred in the interval. A handy tome for the novice, since Straczynski covers much basic ground in key areas of writing for film, television, radio, animation and stage. Strongest in the movie/TV areas and also valuable for animation scribes, playwrights might note that their chapter is the thinnest; perhaps it was all apportioned according to what the various disciplines pay?
Clowns
Author: Towsen, John H. ISBN: 0-8015-3962-5
Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover Publisher: E P Dutton Published: November 1976 Condition:
Price: USD $24.95
Bibliography: p. 383-387. Includes index.
Star Facts: Beverly Hills 90210 Meet the Entire Cast
From Publishers Weekly: Lee, the writer-producer-director who took the movie industry by surprise with his highly successful 1986 independent film She's Gotta Have It, returns to the screen this month with his bigger-budgeted School Daze, filmed on location. In the movie, Lee draws on his experience as a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta from 1975 to 1979, stating that the action "takes places at a fictitious, predominantly Black College in the South. The student body is divided into two factions: The Haves and the Have-Nots. This division is based upon class and color." Scripts are like "blueprints," he writes, and, with that in mind, he presents his screenplay with a code indicating scenes never shot and those deleted during editing. He includes reminiscences and statements by others connected with the production and a section on his career in the music-video field. The result is a hefty package of inside info and filmmaking know-how that should fascinate industry professionals as well as film students and fans. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description: Spike Lee rises again. This time, he and Lisa Jones document his transition from struggling independent to mainstream filmmaker with the making of the Columbia Pictures film, School Daze. No longer working with a small cast and a painfully tight budget, Spike Lee and his crew find themselves working in a swirl of university politics, a cast of thousands, big musical production numbers and the not-insignificant pressures of coming up with a hit in the majors. He "uplifts the race" by demystifying the process of producing an entertaining commercial film that, at the same time, delivers a stinging - yet funny - critique on American culture.
Movie Wars How Hollywood & the Media Conspire to Limit What Films We Can See
Author: Rosenbaum, Jonathan ISBN: 1-55652-406-4
Pages: 234 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Chicago Review Press Published: September 2000 Condition:
Price: USD $2.69
From Publishers Weekly: "Consider what might happen if Roger Ebert couldn't find a single movie to recommend on one of his weekly shows," Rosenbaum asks provocatively in this freewheeling critique of the American movie industry. Arguing that American moviegoers are consistently denied the right to make up their own minds about what movies to see, and even how to think about them, he reveals the powerful influence market researchers, production studios, advertisers, film critics and publishing concerns ("the media-industrial complex") have on how films are made, marketed, released and reviewed. Citing such diverse examples as George Lucas's draconian exhibition contracts for The Phantom Menace (which bound theaters to a lengthy run regardless of audience size), distributors' offers of free film junkets to bribe critics and the use of canned reviews and industry-sanctioned lists of "the 100 Best American Films" written by "professional blurb writers," Rosenbaum drives home his point that there is far more commerce than art in American film. Occasionally, his arguments are overheated (the fact that film festivals are often popularity contests is no surprise), but for the most part they are well-supported and potent, and successfully address broader questions of consumer culture and capitalism. Rosenbaum's journalistic style makes this animated treatise accessible to film buffs who want to know more about how movies get made, while his sound arguments make it a good bet for academic readers as well. (Nov.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
James Naremore, author of Acting in the Cinema: "Jonathan Rosenbaum is...one of the best writers on film of any kind in the history of the medium."
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