A Method To Their Madness The History Of The Actors Studio

by Hirsch, Foster

• ISBN13: 9780306811029
• ISBN10: 0306811022
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-27
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Summary

Visit the training grounds of Brando, Pacino, and Dean in this essential, "richly detailed history"-Backstage

Author Biography

Foster Hirsch, the author of fifteen books on film and theater, among them The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir and Kurt Weill on Stage, lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	p. 9
Before the Studio	p. 15
Acting with Backs to the Audience	p. 17
Building the System	p. 36
Stanislavski in America	p. 51
On Native Grounds: Triumph	p. 67
On Native Grounds: Defeat	p. 96
Behind Closed Doors: Inside the Actors Studio	p. 111
A Philanthropic Gesture	p. 113
Strasberg's Methods	p. 125
A Portrait of the Master Teacher	p. 150
The Best and the Brightest: Strasberg's Moderators	p. 170
A Studio Sampler	p. 181
The Language of the Method	p. 203
Auditions, Activities, Financing	p. 224
The Actors Studio on Stage and Film	p. 245
The Hesitation Waltz	p. 247
The Actors Studio Theatre	p. 262
The Method and the Movies: the Anti-Hero	p. 291
The Method and the Movies: the Anti-Heroine	p. 318
Private Matters: the Films of Elia Kazan	p. 330
Afterword	p. 341
Notes	p. 346
Bibliography	p. 357
Acknowledgments	p. 361
Index	p. 363
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