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Acting in Documentary Theatre
Using new interview material with actors, directors and writers, this book explores the challenges of performance in documentary theatre. Through a series of high profile case studies, Cantrell uses acting theory to examine the actors' complex processes, and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of stage performance.
The Water Lawyer
A brilliant young attorney struggling with his Native American roots unravels a murder-for-hire scheme at a prestigious Denver law firm. Aided by his ranching girlfriend, a retired senator, an ex-con and a retired Alaskan FBI agent, he must outmaneuver hired killers, corrupt lawyers and powerful politicians. Is water worth killing for? It is in the modern day Wild, Wild West.
Playing For Real
"For the last two decades theatre, film and television have reflected a growing obsession with the real throughout the world... Established actors and newcomers report that they are increasingly offered parts based on persons of note... Is it possible to identify differences between preparing for and acting a real person and preparing for and acting a fictional character? What are the specific challenges of playing a real person as opposed to a fictional one... All of the actors interviewed approach their roles in different ways... three major areas... provide useful frames for consideration: researching the part; acting strategies; and performer and audience... Playing a real person brings with it a specific sense of responsibility both towards the subject and the spectator... The actor's need to be able to justify their portrayal to themselves seems to inform their process in terms of a commitment to exercising a greater control over his or her own ego or imagination... These actors speak of a finely balanced combination of careful research and conjuration." -- Introduction.
Korean War Filmography
The Korean experience changed the way Americans viewed war. The lack of a clear-cut victory inspired filmmakers to try to make sense of fighting another country's civil war and risking American lives for an unpopular cause. This filmography details more than 90 English-language films. Each entry includes complete cast and credit listings, a plot synopsis, evaluation, review snippets, and notice of video availability. This book places each film in its historical context, assesses the essential truthfulness of each film and evaluates its entertainment value, and discusses how--and why--Korean War films differ from other Hollywood war genres. Four appendices list the films by chronology; production company and studio; level of historical accuracy; and subject and theme. Additional appendices list films with incidental references to the Korean War; documentaries on the Korean War; and South Korean films about the war. Photographs, a bibliography, and an index are included.
Cowboy Courage
Film and television Westerns are most often associated with physical bravery. However, many--especially those produced during the "Golden Age" of Westerns from the late 1940s through the early 1960s--also demonstrate moral bravery (the willingness to do the right thing even when met with others' disapproval) and psychological bravery (the ability to overcome one's fear and inner conflict to bring out the best in oneself and others). Through a close examination of Westerns displaying all three types of bravery, the author shows us how courage can lead to, and even enrich, other virtues like redemption, authenticity, love, friendship, allegiance to one's community, justice, temperance, and growing up and growing old successfully.
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1000 Famous Horses Fact & Fictional Throughout the Ages
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An Undercurrent
An Undercurrent splices an offshore smuggling operation and a man=s defense of his own home into the Long Beach Island world of charter boat fishing and the men who make it their living, with glimpses of the South Jersey bayside and even South Philly. Dave Canelli, captain of TRIUNE, must make sense of the message on the old GPS receiver, and figure what the man with no ear knows, while trying to get his mate=s father out of jail, and of course keep the folks in the fighting chairs happy. Still, there=s room for a look into the customs and goings on that make up the wonderful world of the New Jersey shore, and the customs and people who make it all work.
The New Wave of British Women Playwrights
It is a fact that today’s British stages resound with powerfully innovative voices and that, very often, these voices have been those of young women playwrights. This collection of essays gives visibility and pride of place to these fascinating voices by exploring the vitality, inventiveness and particularly strong relevance of these poetics. These women playwrights sometimes invent radically new forms and sometimes experiment with conventional ones in fresh and unexpected ways, as for example when they re-energize naturalism and provide it with new missions. The plays that are addressed are all concerned with the necessity to grasp the complexity of the contemporary world and to further investigate what it means to be human. Intimate or epic, and sometimes both at once, visionary or closer to everyday life, these plays approach the contemporary world through a multitude of prisms – historical, scientific, political and poetic – and open different and visionary perspectives.
