Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 699 g
Acting, Industry, and Technology in US Theater
Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 699 g
Reihe: Theater: Theory/Text/Performan
ISBN: 978-0-472-13146-4
Verlag: UNIV OF MICHIGAN PR
Victor Holtcamp explores the invocations of scientific and industrial rhetoric and philosophy in the founding of the first schools of acting in the United States, and echoes of that rhetoric in playwriting, production, and the cinema, as Hollywood in particular embraced this industrially infected model of acting. In their divergent approaches to performance, the major U.S. acting teachers (Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, and Sanford Meisner) demonstrated strong rhetorical affinities for the language of industry, illustrating the pervasive presence of these industrial roots. Holtcamp narrates the story of how actors learned to learn to act, and what that process, for both stage and screen, owed to the interchangeable parts and mass production revolutions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.