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Benedetti, Robert L., author.

The actor in you : sixteen simple steps to understanding the art of acting / Robert Benedetti.

Boston : Allyn & Bacon, [1999]

ix, 149 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

An introduction to the fundamentals of beginning acting, this book enhances students' appreciation of the art of acting by helping them realize that they already possess, in principle, the basic skills of the actor: the ability to play a role, the ability to fulfill the sense of drama and to structure dramatic scenes, and the capacity to express emotion. Drawing exercises and examples from students' everyday lives and from well-known films and television programs, the author succeeds in deducing dramatic principles from those experiences and then applying them to everyday life for artistic purpose.

Acting.

Textbooks.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Understanding acting. What does an actor do? -- Action in life and in performance -- Internal and external action -- Understanding emotion and character -- The actor's state of mind -- Preparing yourself to act. Tension, effort, and relaxation -- Creating together -- Creating a role. Dramatic function -- The character's world -- The character's needs -- The character's mind -- Objectives and actions -- Beats and scene structure -- Through-line and superobjective -- The elements of characterization -- Final rehearsals.

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