Research Catalog

Title

Respect for acting / Uta Hagen ; with Haskel Frankel.

Author

Hagen, Uta, 1919-2004

Publication

Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, ©2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Frankel, Haskel
• Pierce, David Hyde

Description

xiii, 226 pages; 23 cm

Subject

Acting

Note

• Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1973.
• "This edition reprints the original without alteration."--Page [ii].
• New foreword by David Hyde Pierce.
• Includes index.

Contents

Part 1: The actor. Concept ; Identity ; Substitution ; Emotional memory ; Sense memory ; The five senses ; Thinking ; Walking and talking ; Improvisation ; Reality -- Part 2: The object exercises. The basic object exercise ; Three entrances ; Immediacy ; The fourth wall ; Endowment ; Talking to yourself ; Outdoors ; Conditioning forces ; History ; Character action -- Part 3: The play and the role. First contact with the play ; The character ; Circumstances ; Relationship ; The objective ; The obstacle ; The action ; The rehearsal ; Practical problems ; Communication ; Style.

ISBN

• 0470228482
• 9780470228487

LCCN

2008016843

OCLC

• 191245567
• ocn191245567

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library