So don't stay stuck in the Old School Russian style of acting, Stanislavski died many years ago. With the basic technique and fourteen variations on the ways to apply it to your work. Other support techniques and exercises for the tape technique are included. There are also many chapters that deal with the art and craft of acting. The importance of research and many research tools are offered in one.
Research is the most neglected word in the amateur actors vocabulary .
This was my first book written over the years of teaching. It is seminal of the tape technique and my work with the emotions. The other two books grew out of this one. Beyond that it has many exercises and techniques actors will find useful. There is a chapter in this book called, A View from the Crew, in which every member a solid professional film production team Briefly outlines their job and what an actor can do to help them in that task.