Playing to the Camera
Subtitle: Film Actors Discuss Their Craft
Contributors: Bert Cardullo (Editor); Harry Geduld (Editor); Ronald Gottesman (Editor); Leigh Woods (Editor)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: March 30, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780300069839
Subjects: Acting techniques; Biography: film, television & music; Films, cinema; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Performing Arts/Dance; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism; Acting & Auditioning; Film & Video - General; Acting; Interviews; Motion Picture Acting; Motion picture actors and actr; Motion picture actors and actresses; Motion pictures
Description: The book has been edited by four leading film and theater historians, who have brought together selections from periodicals and books (some no longer in print), had some statements or conversations translated into English for the first time, and conducted new interviews with working actors. The book is divided into four parts - "The Silent Performance," "Finding a Voice," "European Acting," and "Hollywood Acting" - each of which is introduced by a brief commentary.

This chronological and topical structure allows one actor to talk or argue with another as they offer astute - and often contradictory - opinions on a broad range of theoretical concerns. Among the issues they discuss are stage versus screen performance, the spiritual, emotional, and psychological underpinnings of the actor's art, and the performer's response to technical demands and other exigencies of filmmaking.