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Title: Sanford Meisner on Acting by Dennis Longwell, Sydney Pollack, Sanford Meisner ISBN: 0-394-75059-4 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 July, 1987 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.58 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Reality of Doing is just that, the reality of doing.
Comment: I would have to say that this is one of the best books on acting around. Although I am too young to have ever studied with Meisner, I am a student of his technique, and I think that this book helps give you a brief insight into what this extraordinary man had in mind. He professes a no nonsense approach to acting, "The reality of doing," that will truly benefit an aspiring artist. Meisner's belief of actually feeling something as opposed to faking something seems self evident, but was revolutionary for his time. Why substitute a response, when you can actually experience the emotion. If you are supposed to be angry actually get angry, don't fake angry. I do however have to agree with the other reviewers in saying that a book is no substitute to actually finding a good teacher with a good core group of students to work through the technique. You come to acting through feeling it, not intellectualizing it. In that you need to actually do it to feel it. It takes a long time, a lot of discipline and perserverance, but it is an extremely rewarding pursuit. The book helps as a guide post, but it is by no means that road that you will need to travel to develop your art.
As with any great teacher, Meisner's lessons can be applied to more than just the subject material. There are several Life's Lessons in this book, and I would even recommend it to people who are not actors or students of theater.
Rating: 5
Summary: Living Truthfully Moment by Moment. Outstanding!
Comment: Sanford Meisner brings every actor who genuinely wants to stretch and bring stellar performances the wisdom to do so in this profound book.
The definition of acting is "living truthfully under imaginary circumstances" which I learned from this book, along with top training at Playhouse West in North Hollywood, CA, where this book was required reading.
Emotional preparation is crucial, BEING the character, and taking all focus off of you, while you react genuinely to the other person's movements, words, gestures, and actions moment by moment.
If you are serious about your acting career, this is the one book that will provide solid ground, which must accompany solid training and steady practice.
Rating: 5
Summary: awesome book
Comment: I love this book is very unique in that it makes one feel like he/she is in the classroom, so it's very stimulating, highly reccommended.
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Title: An Actor Prepares by Constantine Stanislavski, Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood, Constantin Stanislavski ISBN: 0878309837 Publisher: Theatre Arts Books Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: A Dream of Passion: The Development of the Method by Lee Strasberg ISBN: 0452261988 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: May, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Respect for Acting by Uta Hagen, Haskel Frankel ISBN: 0025473905 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 01 September, 1973 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: On the Technique of Acting by Michael Chekhov ISBN: 0062730371 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 31 July, 1991 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Audition by Michael Shurtleff ISBN: 0553272950 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 02 December, 1979 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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