{"product_id":"modern-acting-the-lost-chapter-of-american-film-and-theatre-palgrave-studies-in-screen-industries-and-performance-9781349680832","title":"Modern Acting The Lost Chapter of American Film","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt reveals that Stella Adler, long associated with the Method, is best understood as a Modern acting teacher and that Modern acting, not Method, might be seen as central to American performing arts if the Actors’ Lab in Hollywood (1941-1950) had survived the Cold War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Part I: Making Modern Acting Visible.- Chapter 1: A Twenty-First-Century Perspective.- Chapter 2: Acting Strategies, Modern Drama, New Stagecraft.- Chapter 3: Modern Acting: A Conscious Approach.- Chapter 4: Modern Acting: Obscured by the Method’s “American” Style.- Part II: Acting and American Performing Arts.- Chapter 5: Developments in Modern Theatre and Modern Acting, 1875-1930.- Chapter 6: Shifting Fortunes in the Performing Arts Business.- Park III: The Creative Labor of Modern Acting.- Chapter 7: The American Academy of Dramatic Arts.- Chapter 8: The Pasadena Playhouse.- Chapter 9: Training in Modern Acting on the Studio Lots.- Chapter 10: The Actors’ Laboratory in Hollywood.- Part IV: Modern and Method Acting.- Chapter 11: Modern Acting: Stage and Screen.- Chapter 12: The Legacy of Modern Acting.- Appendix: Group Theatre, Alfred Lunt, and Katharine Cornell Productions.- Notes.- ","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407494848855,"sku":"9781349680832","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781349680832.jpg?v=1730499568","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modern-acting-the-lost-chapter-of-american-film-and-theatre-palgrave-studies-in-screen-industries-and-performance-9781349680832","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}