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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 792.028
EAN num: 9780025473904
ISBN number: 0025473905
Label: Wiley
Manufacturer: Wiley
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 227
Printing Date: September 01, 1973
Publishing house: Wiley
Sale Popularity Level: 28158
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'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 standards for herself and those she teaches, and an explanation of the means to the end. For those unable to avail themselves of her personal tutelage, her book is the best substitute.' —Publishing houses Weekly 'Uta Hagen's Respect for Acting is not only pitched on a high artistic level but it is full of homely, practical information by a superb craftswoman. crafts-woman. An illuminating discusion of the standards and techniques of enlightened stage acting.' —Brooks Atkinson 'Hagen adds to the large corpus of titles on acting with vivid dicta drawn from experience, skill, and a sense of personal and professional worth. Her principal asset in this treatment is her truly significant imagination. Her ‘object exercises’ display a wealth of detail with which to stimulate the student preparing a scene for presentation.' —Library Journal 'Respect for Acting is a simple, lucid and sympathetic statement of actors' problems in the theatre and basic tenets for their training wrought from the personal experience of a fine actress and teacher of acting.' —Harold Clurman 'Uta Hagen's Respect for Acting…is a relatively small book. But within it Miss Hagen tells the young actor about as much as can be conveyed in print of his craft.' —Los Angeles Times 'Uta Hagen is our greatest living actor; she is, moreover, interested and mystified by the presence of talent and its workings; her third gift is a passion to communicate the mysteries of the craft to which she has given her life. There are almost no American actors uninfluenced by her.' —Fritz Weaver 'This is a textbook for aspiring actors, but working thespians can profit much by it. Anyone with just a casual interest in the theater should also enjoy its behind-the-scenes flavor. Respect for Acting is certainly a special book, perhaps for a limited readership, but of its 'How-To' kind I'd give it four curtain calls, and two hollers of 'Author, Author —King Features Syndicate
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In her introduction to Respect for Acting, actress and teacher Uta Hagen talks about a time when she herself had no respect for the art of acting. 'I used to accept opinions such as: 'You're just born to be an actor'; 'Actors don't really know what they're doing on stage'; 'Acting is just instinct--it can't be taught.'' But this attitude of 'you got it or you don't' is fundamentally one that denigrates the craft, as she points out. Great actors do not perform effortlessly, or merely through learning the appropriate tricks and cheats to manipulate an audience. Great acting is about the difficult fusion of intellect and action--about sincerely and truthfully connecting to the moment, your fellow actors, and the audience--and Hagen's thoughtful and profound book contains a series of observations and exercises to help an actor do just that. Her prose style is admirably clear and filled with examples from her own lengthy career both as a performer and in the classroom. While her exercises in sense memory and basic objects skirt close to the sort of self-absorption that followers of 'the Method' are routinely accused of, they are presented clearly and with a focus on practical results. And in such places as her chapter 'Practical Problems,' which includes discussions of stage nerves and how to stay fresh in a long run, her straightforward advice is invaluable. --John Longenbaugh
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Actors never stop learning, this is just one of many that needs to be in a student of acting library
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This is one of the most intelligent, clearly laid out acting books on the market!
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I had to read this for acting class. Author has a stuck-up, snooty know it all tone. Paragraphs are very long & wordy, not friendly to the reader at all. While this book has good information, the presentation of the material is downright awful. Aside from the good techniques presented, I would say that it is a very difficult read, quite possibly the worst book ever written. Follow-up should be "The Guide to being a feminist snob."
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This book is great, don't get me wrong. But her later book, "A Challenge for the Actor" takes everything of value in this book, elaborates on it, and adds oodles more information and insight (reflecting the author's own revising of her approach and methods over the years). Reading both isn't necessary; I would head straight for "...Challenge..."
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The book took longer than the specified time to arrive. I requested information about shipping a few weeks after ordering but never received a reply. Eventually the book arrived wrapped in plain copy paper and tape almost a month after ordering. Another vendor may be the best choice!
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