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Hollywood Unknowns: A History of Extras, Bit Players, and Stand-Ins

by Anthony Slide

Extras, bit players, and stand-ins have been a part of the film industry almost from its conception. On a personal and a professional level, their stories are told in Hollywood Unknowns, the first history devoted...


Theorizing Film Acting

by Aaron Taylor

This comprehensive collection provides theoretical accounts of the grounds and phenomenon of film acting. The volume features entries by some of the most prominent scholars on film acting who collectively represent...


Julius Caesar: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

by Nick Newlin

"A master at engaging students in the process of performing a Shakespearescene."—Janet Field-Pickering, head of education, Folger Shakespeare Library


The Tempest: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

by Nick Newlin

"A truly fun, emotional, and sometimes magical first experience . . . guided by a sagacious, knowledgeable, and intuitive educator."—Library Journal


Acting Lions: Unleash Your Craft In Today's Lightning Fast World of Film, Television and Theatre

by Penny Templeton

Acting has drastically changed from the days of Stanislavsky and the Group Theatre, when techniques were geared for the actor who would rehearse for 5 or 6 months, or more. Gradually, the business began speeding...


Auditions: A Practical Guide

by Richard Evans

Auditions are an integral part of every performer's life. From getting into drama school, through to a successful career in an overcrowded industry, Auditions: A Practical Guide offers crucial advice and tried-and-tested...


Essential Acting

by Brigid Panet

HOW DO ACTORS FUSE THOUGHT, EMOTION and ACTION WITHIN THEIR CREATIVE PROCESS?

Essential Acting is an inspired and reliable toolbox for actors and teachers in the classroom, the rehearsal room and the workshop....


A Star Is Found: Our Adventures Casting Some of Hollywood's Biggest Movies

by Janet Hirshenson & Jane Jenkins

For anyone who’s ever walked out of a movie and said, "That guy was all wrong for the part," comes this first-of-its-kind look at how actors are chosen and careers are born. Two of the top casting directors...


Dance While You Can

by Shirley Maclaine

In a candid memoir, the Academy Award-winning actress reminisces about her forty years in Hollywood, her acting craft, her recovery from personal and professional crises, and her feelings about herself.


Respect for Acting

by Haskel Frankel, Uta Hagen & David Hyde Pierce

Respect for Acting

"This fascinating and detailed book about acting is Miss Hagen's credo, the accumulated wisdom of her years spent in intimate communion with her art. It is at once the voicing of her exacting...


Acting for the Camera

by Tony Barr

Culled from Tony Barr's 40 years' experience as a performer, director and acting teacher in Hollywood, this highly praised handbook provides readers with the practical knowledge they need when performing in...


Audrey Hepburn

by Ellen Cheshire

The Pocket Essential Audrey Hepburn looks at Audrey’s early life growing up in Holland during the war. Her father was a nazi sympathiser and her mother of Dutch aristocracy and this brought about pressures...


Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arth

by Stella Adler

In her long-awaited book, the legendary acting teacher Stella Adler gives us her extraordinary insights into the work of Henrik Ibsen (“The creation of the modern theater took a genius like Ibsen . . . Miller...


The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor

by Larry Moss

“I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don’t seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.”

–Larry Moss, from the Introduction

When Oscar-winning actors Helen Hunt and Hilary Swank...


The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare

by John Russell Russell Brown

The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare is a window onto how today's actors contribute to the continuing life and relevance of Shakespeare's plays.

The process of acting is notoriously hard to document,...


The On-Camera Audition

by Joseph Hacker

To win a screen role, an actor must learn to contend with an on-camera audition. Understanding how to make the crucial adjustments to one's craft that this kind of audition requires is vital to the career of...


Actor's Alchemy: Finding the Gold in the Script

by Bruce Miller

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An actor's script is both a gold mine, and the map to discovering it: if properly read, a script will reveal its riches to you. Unfortunately, most actors never learn to efficiently read the map, or master...


The Quotable Actor: 1001 Pearls of Wisdom from Actors Talking About Acting

by Damon Dimarco

Collecting advice, quotes, essays, and observations from hundreds of famous actors and highly regarded acting teachers, this book covers a wide range of topics on the art and history of acting. Entertaining,...


Don't Stop Believin': The Unofficial Guide to Glee

by Erin Balser & Suzanne Gardner

The fictional high-school milieu of Glee—the wildly popular Fox television series that debuted in 2009—is celebrated and dissected in this detailed companion to the series. The songs, the students, and the...


Truly, Madly, Deadly: The Unofficial True Blood Companion

by Becca Wilcott

This companion to the wildly popular HBO series True Blood is at once an introductory guide to the first two seasons of the vampire saga and a treasure trove for the legions of true believers who follow the...