Straight Shooting

Straight Shooting is a wry, amusing, affectionate look at Hollywood over the years - the public drama and private feuds, the tyrannical reigns of the big studio bosses, the larger-than-life exploits of the big male stars - and what it was like to be part of that world. Stack is renowned for his Emmy Award-winning performance in TV's "The Untouchables" and for films like "The High and the Mighty" and "Written on the Wind". Less well known are the other roles this hard-working actor excelled in over the years: son, husband, father, friend to some of Hollywood's most admired stars, and a consummate sportsman especially skilled in skeet shooting -- National Skeet Shooting Champion at seventeen and a member of the Skeet Shooting Hall of Fame. Stack was the son of a dazzling California socialite and an advertising giant (the man responsible for slogans like "The beer that made Milwaukee famous"). Among their friends, the elder Stacks numbered many well-known Hollywood personalities - lovingly described by the actor as he remembers them from his adolescent years. Each step in Stack's career brought him in contact with fascinating people who became legends -- story after story rolls by, each more memorable than the last, told with unceasing admiration for the personal style these stars projected and the often profound effect many of them had upon Stack's life. "The Untouchables" years are depicted with wonderful candor as Stack recalls many fine co-stars and hilarious behind-the-scenes episodes. In addition there are cameo appearances by luminaries Ernst Lubitsch, Betty Grable, W.C. Fields, the Ritz Brothers, Joe Pasternak, "Archie Bunker", and Lauren Bacall, to make this a rich, engrossing reading experience. Straight Shooting is filled with good feeling, friendship, and a sense of a job well done - as was Stack's own career and life. Through it all, Robert Stack emerges on target, a straight-shooter in every sense of the word.

Literature & Fiction

Evans,Mark

Stack, Robert

Contemporary

Macmillan

Investigating a range of influential movement training practices, this ambitious book considers the significance of professional training to performers and their bodies. Performance training approaches are examined within their wider social and cultural contexts, illuminating their evolution in response to the changing context of theatre practice and production. Adopting a rigorous critical angle, Mark Evans' approach is at the cutting-edge of Theatre scholarship, drawing on interviews with recognised practitioners and considering the implications for movement and the body in the digital age.\nEngaging and enlightening, this is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Theatre, Drama and Performance wishing to understand and contextualise the theories behind performance training.

Performance, Movement and the Body (Theatre and Performance Practices, 7)

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Methuen Drama

Profiles the often overlooked role of the composers who supply motion picture soundtracks, analyzing the careers and music of the most outstanding and discussing the technical aspects of the craft

Soundtrack: The Music Of The Movies

Music

Da Capo Press

Frantic Assembly (Routledge Performance Practitioners)

Smith,Mark

Routledge

Frantic Assembly have had a powerful and continuing influence on the popularisation of devising practices in contemporary theatre-making. Their work blends brave and bold physical theatre with exciting new writing, and they have collaborated with some of the leading theatre-makers in the UK. The company’s impact reaches throughout the world, particularly through their extensive workshop and education programmes, as well as their individual and collective impact as movement directors on landmark, internationally successful productions such as Black Watch and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. 
This volume reveals the background to, and work of, a major influence on twentieth and twenty-first century performance. Frantic Assembly is the first book to combine: 
an overview of the history of the company since its foundation in 1994 
an analysis of the key ideas underpinning the company’s work 
a critical commentary on two key productions – Hymns by Chris O’Connell (1999) and Stockholm by Bryony Lavery (2007) 
a detailed description of a Frantic Assembly workshop, offering an introduction to how the company works. 
As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners offer unbeatable value for today’s student.

Mime into Physical Theatre: A UK Cultural History 1970–2000

<ul> <li>The only comprehensive and in-depth history of mime and physical theatre in the UK, from its roots, influences and early pioneers, to the leading lights and international successes of today.</li> <li>Includes original interviews with pioneers in the field, including: Joseph Seelig, Helen Lannaghan, Steven Berkoff, Julian Chagrin, Annabel Arden, Nola Rae, Denise Wong, David Glass, Justin Case and Toby Sedgwick.</li> <li>A one-stop shop for anyone studying contemporary UK theatre and its physical innovators, including Forced Entertainment, DV8, and Improbable.</li> </ul>

Murray, Simon

This is the first book to investigate the social, political, cultural, artistic and economic forces which created conditions for the rise, success and decline of mime and physical theatre in the United Kingdom, from the 1970s to 2000.

A biography of Scott Joplin, king of the ragtime writers.

Scott Joplin and the Ragtime Years

Dodd, Mead

Part of our successful Routledge Performance Practitioners series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century, this book examines Jacques Copeau; a leading figure in the development of twentieth century theatre practice, a pioneer for work on actor-training, physical theatre and ensemble acting, and a key innovator in the movement to de-centralize theatre and culture to the regions. Presenting the background to and the work of one of the major influences on twentieth- and twenty-first-century performance, this is the first book to combine:   an overview of Copeau's life and work  an analysis of his key ideas  a detailed commentary of his 1917 production of Moliere's late farce Les Fourberies de Scapin – the opening performance of his influential New York season  a series of practical exercises offering an introduction to Copeau's working methods.   As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Jacques Copeau is unbeatable value for today's student.

Jacques Copeau (Routledge Performance Practitioners)

Humor & Entertainment

Part of our successful Routledge Performance Practitioners series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century, this book examines Jacques Copeau; a leading figure in the development of twentieth century theatre practice, a pioneer for work on actor-training, physical theatre and ensemble acting, and a key innovator in the movement to de-centralize theatre and culture to the regions. Presenting the background to and the work of one of the major influences on twentieth- and twenty-first-century performance, this is the first book to combine: <ul>
<li>an overview of Copeau's life and work </li> <li>an analysis of his key ideas </li> <li>a detailed commentary of his 1917 production of Moliere's late farce Les Fourberies de Scapin – the opening performance of his influential New York season </li> <li>a series of practical exercises offering an introduction to Copeau's working methods. </li> </ul>
As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Jacques Copeau is unbeatable value for today's student.

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Straight Shooting

Performance, Movement and the Body (Theatre and Performance Practices, 7)

Soundtrack: The Music Of The Movies

Frantic Assembly (Routledge Performance Practitioners)

Frantic Assembly (Routledge Performance Practitioners)

Mime into Physical Theatre: A UK Cultural History 1970–2000

Mime into Physical Theatre: A UK Cultural History 1970–2000

Scott Joplin and the Ragtime Years

Jacques Copeau (Routledge Performance Practitioners)

Jacques Copeau (Routledge Performance Practitioners)