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Published Year:
2011
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Basic MLA Format
Author:
Spartanburg Community College Library,
A nine-page library handout giving quick MLA citation templates and examples, keyed to page numbers in the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th edition. It opens with general rules: double-space entries, indent second and later lines, put authors last name first, handle sources with no author, and include the publication medium (Print or Web). The main sections cover:
Published Year:
2007
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ACTING FOR FILM
Author:
Mel Churcher
A practical workbook that draws on Churcher’s experience coaching actors on major movies to explain the film acting process. It gives tasks, techniques, and tips designed specifically for film. These include advice to make a first-time film actor feel at home on set, tips on casting and auditions, on-camera techniques, schedules and shooting order, and advice from film crews on helping an actor’s performance. It combines exercises and anecdotes in an informal, accessible style. The publisher... see more
Published Year:
1974
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Theatre of the Oppressed
Author:
Augusto Boal
Boal argues that theatre can be a weapon not only of ruling-class control but of revolution. He works through the poetics of Aristotle and the philosophies of Machiavelli, Hegel, and Brecht to show how their key ideas, imitation and catharsis among them, serve to support the status quo of a society rather than help change it. He then shows the process reversed in Brechtian and Marxist poetics. He ties the theory to his own experience of revolutionary theatre in Latin America, with practical exer... see more
Published Year:
1989
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An Actor Prepares
Author:
Konstantin Stanislavski’s
This is the first volume of Stanislavski’s trilogy on the art of acting. It explains acting in semi-fictional form, as the diary of a student named Kostya during his first year of training. The student’s mistakes, questions, and revelations unfold in lessons with a director, Tortsov, who is based on Stanislavski himself. The book deals with the inward preparation an actor must undergo to explore a role fully. It introduced Stanislavski’s “system” to the English-speaking world and prese... see more
Published Year:
2011
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acting characters
Author:
Paul Elsam
The book is an introductory handbook for the aspiring actor. It is built from twenty steps grouped into six sections, which help the actor create, present, and sustain a believable character in most circumstances. It is practical and avoids heavy theory, looking instead at how to use different voices and body language to convey character. It also presents Stanislavski’s key concepts in an accessible way. Elsam says competing books contain a lot of mystical ideas about how actors work, but litt... see more
Published Year:
2024
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From Afro Beat to Afro Beats
Author:
Bernard B. Fyanka
The call says Afrobeat and Afrobeats have risen to the global stage as the new “pop.” It describes the shift from “Afro Beat” to “Afro Beats” as turning the phenomenon into an all-inclusive African cultural and musical revolution. That revolution draws on every music genre on the continent and has blended with major world genres such as hip hop, reggae, dancehall, R&B, and soul. It is powered by digital, IT, and internet technology. The call notes that artists now sell out stadiums a... see more
Published Year:
2000
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Research Methods in education- 5th edtion
Author:
Lawrence Manion
Research Methods in Education (5th ed., 2000), by Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion and Keith Morrison, is a long-running standard textbook covering the whole range of methods used in educational research. It is written for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and for professional researchers, teachers, administrators and advisers who use research. The book combines the theory behind research methodology with practical guidelines for carrying out a study. It opens with the nature of inquiry and t... see more
Published Year:
2006
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The Director’s Idea
Author:
Ken Dancyger
The book argues that a director needs a governing concept, the “director’s idea,” to shape the approach to the actors, the camera, and the script. With a clear idea, a film gains depth and effectiveness, and a director can tell competent directing from great directing. Dancyger supports this with case studies of famous directors as real-world examples of directors’ ideas, offering theory and practice meant to improve a director’s work right away. He wrote it from his teaching experienc... see more
Published Year:
2011
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Research Methods in Theatre and Performance
Author:
Baz Kershaw
Research Methods in Theatre and Performance (2011), edited by Baz Kershaw and Helen Nicholson, is part of Edinburgh University Press’s Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities series. It presents research in theatre and performance as a creative, flexible and collaborative activity rather than a fixed set of procedures for capturing and codifying knowledge. The chapters were written mostly by members of the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA), and the book is shaped by the... see more
Published Year:
2010
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ON DIRECTING AND DRAMATURGY
Author:
Eugenio Barba
The book is Barba’s account of his own life and work: a major retrospective of his working methods, practical techniques, and the life experiences that fed his theatre-making. He treats dramaturgy not as literary management but as a complex way of seeing and doing theatre. He argues that directing and criticism are offspring of dramaturgy, rather than the other way around. The publisher calls it a “dramaturgy of dramaturgies” and a professional autobiography, useful to beginning students, ... see more