This edition marks the 40th Anniversary of this classic and comprehensive introduction to acting. With this new edition, Benedetti continues to provide wide-ranging insight into the techniques and demands of acting today. Centered on the concept of action, The Actor at Work covers all the major skills of the actor, including voice, speech, movement, analysis and role-playing. Using many ideas from contemporary psychology and various physical and spiritual disciplines, this text helps the reader uncover and develop the actors within themselves, as it encourages self-discovery through participatory activities and exercises.

The Actor at Work

Robert Benedetti

Humor & Entertainment

Pearson

This collection grew from the experience of a group of scholars at the University of the Pacific who were challenged by the San Joaquin County Registrar of Voters to reduce voter error, improve poll worker-training, and increase voting by mail (absentee voting). The project was supported by funds from the help America Vote Act (HAVA), legislation passed in the wake of Florida's experience in the 2000 presidential election, and by the Pew Foundation for the States. Its immediate context was a controversy in California over the use of voting machines, a controversy that resulted in a return to the use of paper balloting at least for the near term. Both the Florida experience and the controversy in California reflect a growing realization that the electoral system itself has influenced the outcomes of elections rather than provided a level playing field for all candidates and all voters. In addition, the costs and potential costs of elections have skyrocketed with the increasing participation of media consultants, equipment manufacturers, and data specialists. In other words, the voting system is increasingly political and expensive in itself. Can and should such trends be reversed? The experience of San Joaquin County and research at the University of the Pacific shed light on this important question.

More Votes That Count: A Case Study in Voter Mobilization

Alan Ray

Randall Collette

Brett DeBoer

Qingwen Dong

Austin Erdmann

Ben Goodhue

Nathn Monroe

Erin O'Hara

Jon Schamber

Dari Sylvester

Lisa Tromovitch

Paul Turpin

Keith, Smith

Institute of Governmental Studies Press

Seeming, Being and Becoming

Drama Publishers

Countless actors have learned and benefited from The Actor at Work through fifty years and ten editions. Robert Benedetti continues this strong tradition in this Eleventh Edition. Designed for acting courses beyond the introductory level, The Actor at Work takes readers through understanding first their own bodies, voices, and thoughts, then techniques of action, and finally creating fully realized performances. The exercises that accompany each lesson form a program of self-discovery and self-development and are arranged roughly according to a natural acquisition of skills and insights. 
Titles by Robert Benedetti also available from Waveland Press: Action!: Professional Acting for Film and Television, Second Edition (ISBN 9781478649397) and The Actor in You: Twelve Simple Steps to Understanding the Art of Acting, Seventh Edition (ISBN 9781478649359).

The Actor at Work, Eleventh Edition

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Waveland Press. Inc.

Multiple award-winning producer and leading teacher of acting Robert Benedetti offers a no-nonsense, detailed, and clearly structured approach to the fundamentals of acting for the camera. Benedetti uses the same approach he has employed in writing and teaching for over fifty years—defining underlying principles, presenting them in a logically sequential program of development, and providing experiential exercises to help future, as well as experienced, actors shine in film and television. 
Titles by Robert Benedetti also available from Waveland Press: The Actor at Work, Eleventh Edition (ISBN 9781478649045) and The Actor in You: Twelve Simple Steps to Understanding the Art of Acting, Seventh Edition (ISBN 9781478649359).

Action!: Professional Acting for Film and Television, Second Edition

The Long Italian Goodbye is a portrait of a boy growing up in Chicago surrounded by love and the reality of loss. You will laugh and cry, and be very sad to leave the world Mr. Benedetti paints so splendidly. Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author.

The Long Italian Goodbye

Literature & Fiction

United States

Durban House Publishing

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