Authors:Ali Miri, Ali Miri,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: wireless, actor, networks, sensor, canada, communication, technology, ontario, conference, proceedings, ifip, wsan, ottawa
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2008-06-30
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 0387094407
ISBN-13: 9780387094403
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 2008 IFIP Conference on Wireless Sensors and Actor Networks held in Ottawa, Canada on July 14-15, 2008. The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The scope of the series includes: foundations of computer science; software theory and practice; education; computer applications in technology; communication systems; systems modeling and optimization; information systems; computers and society; computer systems technology; security and protection in information processi
Authors:Mari Lyn Henry, Lynne Rogers, Joe Mantegna,
Publisher: Back Stage Book
Keywords: working, jobs, guide, finding, insider, actor, television, theater, film
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2007-12-10
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0823088952
ISBN-13: 9780823088959
Actors, educators, acting teachers, casting directors, talent agents, managers, and producers don’t agree on much, but they all agree that How to Be a Working Actor is the definitive guide to the business of acting. Being a working actor means managing a career as an ongoing business--and while most books focus on dramatic technique, this one reveals the whole picture, from improving audition skills to surviving screen tests, from finding an agent to surviving in the city or in regional theater. Now in its fifth edition, updated and expanded, the book includes a new chapter on the value of e
Author: Parnell Hall
Publisher: Mysterious Pr
Keywords: actor
Number of Pages: 273
Published: 1993-05-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0892965207
ISBN-13: 9780892965205
New York private investigator Stanley Hastings chases his dream of becoming an actor, but when he is accused of a murder backstage, he must use all of his sleuthing talents to track a killer. Reprint. PW. NYT.
Author: Uta Hagen
Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons
Keywords: actor, challenge
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1991-08-21
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0684190400
ISBN-13: 9780684190402
Theoretically, the actor ought to be more sound in mind and body than other people, since he learns to understand the psychological problems of human beings when putting his own passions, his loves, fears, and rages to work in the service of the characters he plays. He will learn to face himself, to hide nothing from himself -- and to do so takes an insatiable curiosity about the human condition. from the Prologue Uta Hagen, one of the world’s most renowned stage actresses, has also taught acting for more than forty years at the HB Studio in New York. Her first book, Respect for Acting
Author: Simon Callow
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: actor
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-08-23
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0312422431
ISBN-13: 9780312422431
A new edition of the classic book for actors starting their careers, with new materialFew actors have ever been more eloquent, more honest, or more entertaining about their life and their profession than Simon Callow, one of the finest actors of his time and increasingly one of the most admired writers about the theater.Beginning with the letter to Laurence Olivier that produced his first theatrical job to his triumph as Mozart in the original production of Amadeus, Callow takes us with him on his progress through England’s rich and demanding theater: his training at London’s famed Drama C
Author: Constantin Stanislavski
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: prepares, actor
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 1989-04-28
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0878309837
ISBN-13: 9780878309832
So much mystery and veneration surrounds the writings of the great Russian teacher and director Stanislavski that perhaps the greatest surprise awaiting a first-time reader of An Actor Prepares is how conversational, commonsensical, and even at times funny this legendary book is. After many productions with the Moscow Arts Company, Stanislavski sought a way to introduce his new style of acting to the world outside of his rehearsal hall. The resulting book is a "mock diary" of an actor describing a series of exercises and rehearsals in which he participates. He details his own emotional and int
Author: Gillyanne Kayes
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: actor, singing
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-11-03
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0878301984
ISBN-13: 9780878301980
Singing and the Actor takes the reader step by step through a practical training programme relevant to the modern singing actor and dancer. A variety of contemporary voice qualities including Belting and Twang are explained, with excercises for each topic.
