ISBN: 0415486009 Binding: Hardcover Edition: 1 Author(s): Shannon Jackson Publisher: Routledge Number of Pages: 320
a game-changer a must-read for scholars students and artists alike Tom Finkelpearl At a time when art world critics and curators heavily debate the social and when community organizers and civic activists are reconsidering the role of aesthetics in social reform this book makes explicit some of the contradictions and competing stakes of contemporary experimental art-making Social Works is an interdisciplinary approach to the forms goals and histories of innovative social practice in both contemporary performance and visual art Shannon Jackson uses a range of case studies and contemporary methodologies to mediate between the fields of visual and performance studies The result is a brilliant analysis that not only incorporates current political and aesthetic discourses but also provides a practical understanding of social practice
The Art of Voice Acting, Third Edition: The Craft and Business of Performing for Voice-Over
ISBN: 0240808924 Binding: Paperback Edition: 3 Author(s): James Alburger Publisher: Focal Press Number of Pages: 360
From basic acting techniques and exercises for keeping the voice in top condition to marketing and promotion of the actor this book covers it all The Art of Voice Acting is an excellent introduction to the business and art of voice acting This new edition also features coverage of specialist areas of voice over: animationvideo gaming and film movie trailer Updated to reflect the latest changes in performance techniques and products in the industry it is essential reading for all voice over actors Packed with expert advice on job opportunities and career management tips it is the ideal resource for anyone involved in the industry The voice over demos and exercises on the expanded CD ROM complete this perfect modern manual to getting established in the voice acting industry
Learn insider tips on finding work making audition tapes and establishing yourself as a professional voice over actor Gain expert advice on how to keep your voice in top condition Perfect your performing skills using easy-to-follow voice exercises and demos on CD Rom
Kamishibai Story Theater: The Art of Picture Telling
ISBN: 1591584043 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Dianne de Las Casas Publisher: Libraries Unlimited Number of Pages: 100
De Las Casas has adapted 25 folktales from across Asia for whole classroom use borrowing a Japanese method of storytelling through pictures The book offers tips on rehearsing and detailed discussion and background of the Kamishibai processes and it describes how to coordinate grade-level story presentations Reproducible tales can be distributed to each member of the class to aide in creating illustrations The stories in Kamishibai Story Theater will delight children in grades 2-6 enticing them to participate in their own story festDe Las Casas has adapted 25 folktales from across Asia for whole classroom use borrowing a Japanese method of storytelling through pictures Kamishibai theater harkens back to itinerant storytellers (Kamishibai Men) who conveyed their tales by means of illustrated cards slid into slots in wooden stages built on the back of their bicycles This book includes an introductory chapter describing in detail the methods to use in coaching students in the art of Kamishibai Story Theater It offers tips on rehearsing and detailed discussion and background of the Kamishibai processes and it describes how to coordinate grade-level story presentations Reproducible tales can be distributed to each member of the class to aide in creating illustrations Spot illustrations for each tale give students an idea of the flavor of their drawings for that story The stories in Kamishibai Story Theater will delight children in grades 2-6 enticing them to participate in their own story fest
El Teatro Campesino: Theater in the Chicano Movement
ISBN: 0292708017 Binding: Paperback Edition: 1 Author(s): Yolanda Broyles-González Publisher: University of Texas Press Number of Pages: 304
Born in 1965 as an organizing tool within Csar Chvez's United Farm Workers union El Teatro Campesino became the premier Chicanao performance ensemble to emerge out of the Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s This study demythologizes and reinterprets the company's history from its origins in California's farm labor struggles to its successes in Europe and on Broadway until the disbanding of the original collective ensemble in 1980 with the subsequent adoption of mainstream production techniquesYolanda Broyles-Gonzlez corrects many misconceptions concerning the Teatro's creation and evolution She draws from a rich storehouse of previously untapped material such as interviews with numerous ensemble members production notes and unpublished diaries to highlight the reality of the collective creation that characterized the Teatro's workWriting within contemporary cultural studies theory Broyles-Gonzlez sheds light on class gender race and cultural issues Her work situates the Teatro within working-class Mexican performance history the Chicano movement gender relations and recent attempts to mainstream
ISBN: 0878302034 Binding: Hardcover Edition: 1 Author(s): Jean Benedetti Publisher: Routledge Number of Pages: 256
How did acting begin What is its history and what have the great thinkers on acting said about the art and craft of performance In this single-volume survey of the history of acting Jean Benedetti traces the evolution of the theories of the actor's craft drawing extensively on extracts from key texts many of which are unavailable for the student today Beginning with the classical conceptions of acting as rhetoric and oratory as exemplified in the writing of Aristotle Cicero and others The Art of the Actor progresses to examine ideas of acting in Shakespeare's time right through to the present day Along the way Benedetti considers the contribution and theories of key figures such as Diderot Stanislavski Meyerhold Brecht Artaud and Grotowski providing a clear and concise explanation of their work illustrated by extracts and summaries of their writings Some source materials appear in the volume for the first time in English
The Art of the Actor will be the essential history of acting for all students and actors interested in the great tradition of performance both as craft and as art
The Shuberts Present: 100 Years of American Theater
ISBN: 0810906147 Binding: Hardcover Edition: Author(s): Maryann Chach, Reagan Fletcher, Mark Evan Swartz, Sylvia Wang Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Number of Pages: 328
Entrepreneurs and impresarios the Shubert Brothers (Sam Lee and J J) produced some 600 plays revues and musicals from A Chorus Line to Cats and championed stars from Sarah Bernhardt and Ethel Barrymore to Al Jolson Carmen Miranda Judi Dench and Nicole Kidman But their greatest legacy was the theaters that they owned Focusing on the 17 Broadway houses currently owned by the Shubert Organization this book presents a unique pageant of the past 100 years on the American stage The illustrations-including new photographs by architectural photographer Whitney Cox; three lavish 8-page gatefolds; and numerous production shots programs song sheets and original costume and set designs from the fabulous Shubert Archive-are irresistible to any theater lover To peruse these pages is to relive American theater history 430 illustrations 200 in full color three 8-page gatefolds 9 x 1112"
The Christmas Creche: Treasure of Faith, Art, and Theater
ISBN: 0819815446 Binding: Hardcover Edition: Author(s): Matthew Powell Publisher: Pauline Books & Media Number of Pages: 156
Elaborate and awe-inspiring Plain and simple Christmas creche come in as many varieties as there are people In exploring the mystery of Christmas through art drama and devotion this beautiful volume reminds us of God's gift
Backstage in the Novel: Frances Burney and the Theater Arts
ISBN: 0813932548 Binding: Hardcover Edition: Author(s): Francesca Saggini Publisher: University of Virginia Press Number of Pages: 336
In Backstage in the Novel Francesca Saggini traces the unique interplay between fiction and theater in the eighteenth century through an examination of the work of the English novelist diarist and playwright Frances Burney Moving beyond the basic identification of affinities between the genres Saggini establishes a literary-cultural context for Burney's work considering the relation between drama a long-standing tradition and the still-emergent form of the novel Through close semiotic analysis intertextual comparison and cultural contextualization Saggini highlights the extensive metatextual discourse in Burney's novels allowing the theater within the novels to surface Saggini's comparative analysis addresses among other elements textual structures plots characters narrative discourse and reading practices The author explores the theatrical and spectacular elements that made the eighteenth-century novel a hybrid genre infused with dramatic conventions She analyzes such conventions in light of contemporary theories of reception and of the role of the reader that underpinned eighteenth-century cultural consumption In doing so Saggini contextualizes the typical reader-spectator of Burney's day one who kept abreast of the latest publications and was able to move effortlessly between "high" (sentimental dramatic) and "low" (grotesque comedic) cultural forms that intersected on the stage Backstage in the Novel aims to restore to Burney's entire literary corpus the dimensionality that characterized it originally It is a vivid close-up view of a writer who operated in a society saturated by theater and spectacle and who rendered that dramatic text into narrative More than a study of Burney or an overview of eighteenth-century literature and theater this book gives immediacy to an understanding of the broad forces informing and channeled through Burney's life and work
Theater Geek: The Real Life Drama of a Summer at Stagedoor Manor
ISBN: Binding: Paperback Edition: Reprint Author(s): Mickey Rapkin Publisher: Free Press Number of Pages: 272
Before there was Glee or American Idol there was Stagedoor Manor a theater camp in the Catskills where big-time Hollywood casting directors came to find the next generation of stars Its where Natalie Portman Robert Downey Jr Zach Braff Mandy Moore Lea Michele and many others got their start as kids At age thirty-one Mickey Rapkin a senior editor at GQ and self-proclaimed theater geek was lucky enough to go too when he followed three determined teen actors through the rivalries heartbreak and triumphs of a summer at Stagedoor Manor Every summer since 1975 a new crop of campers has entered Stagedoor Manor to begin an intense often wrenching introduction to professional theater The offspring of Hollywood players like Ron Howard Nora Ephron and Bruce Willis work alongside kids on scholarship Some campers have agents others are just beginning The facultyall seasoned professionalsdemand adult-size dedication and performances from the kids Add in talent scouts from Disney and Paradigm and you have an intense exciting environment where some thrive and others fail Eye-opening funny and full of drama and heart Theater Geek offers an illuminating romp through the world of serious child actors
