In this article, the author considers factors in commercial 1930s American theatre and film which led to the unusual circumstance of many stage-trained actors employing ostensibly theatrical acting methods to respond effectively to the challenges and opportunities of industrial sound film production. The author proposes that with American sound cinema fundamentally changing employment prospects on Broadway and Hollywood production practices, the 1930s represent a unique moment in the history of American performing arts, wherein stage-trained actors in New York and Hollywood developed performances according to principles of modern acting articulated by Stanislavsky, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and the acting manuals wri...
Modern theatrical scholars do not generally hold the first two decades of 20th century American dram...
Music-hall et pantomime placent les acteurs qui en sont issus au carrefour de plusieurs formes artis...
In this article I explore some of the ways in which opera was affected by the dynamics of rupture an...
This article discusses the efforts made in the early 20th century to censor certain things in both t...
This dissertation argues that scholars should not equate the demise of vaudeville as a cultural indu...
This article commissioned for the French film journal Positif provides an historical analysis of the...
M. Chekhov's Acting method (a ramification of Stanislavski System, crossed with eurythmics and Stein...
This article examines the career of actor, director and teacher Llewellyn Bullock-Webster, a dynamic...
This article reads the development of psychologically based actor training against larger changes in...
The Hollywood studio era of the 1930s and 1940s was remarkable for its abundance of glamorous stars....
Summary One of the most famous American acting teachers was Lee Strasberg who co-founded the Actors...
McKee Rankin (1844-1914), from Windsor, Ontario, became one of the greatest actors on the American s...
This article is based on the observation of rehearsals for the 1987 Factory Theatre production of Ge...
Acting and actors - the beginnings of the seventh art In the 19th century, melodrama was the most p...
The article is a theoretical analysis of two film acting techniques grown from the concept of a Russ...
Modern theatrical scholars do not generally hold the first two decades of 20th century American dram...
Music-hall et pantomime placent les acteurs qui en sont issus au carrefour de plusieurs formes artis...
In this article I explore some of the ways in which opera was affected by the dynamics of rupture an...
This article discusses the efforts made in the early 20th century to censor certain things in both t...
This dissertation argues that scholars should not equate the demise of vaudeville as a cultural indu...
This article commissioned for the French film journal Positif provides an historical analysis of the...
M. Chekhov's Acting method (a ramification of Stanislavski System, crossed with eurythmics and Stein...
This article examines the career of actor, director and teacher Llewellyn Bullock-Webster, a dynamic...
This article reads the development of psychologically based actor training against larger changes in...
The Hollywood studio era of the 1930s and 1940s was remarkable for its abundance of glamorous stars....
Summary One of the most famous American acting teachers was Lee Strasberg who co-founded the Actors...
McKee Rankin (1844-1914), from Windsor, Ontario, became one of the greatest actors on the American s...
This article is based on the observation of rehearsals for the 1987 Factory Theatre production of Ge...
Acting and actors - the beginnings of the seventh art In the 19th century, melodrama was the most p...
The article is a theoretical analysis of two film acting techniques grown from the concept of a Russ...
Modern theatrical scholars do not generally hold the first two decades of 20th century American dram...
Music-hall et pantomime placent les acteurs qui en sont issus au carrefour de plusieurs formes artis...
In this article I explore some of the ways in which opera was affected by the dynamics of rupture an...