Meyerhold, Eisenstein and Biomechanics: Actor Training in Revolutionary Russia (Law Alma)(Paperback)

Meyerhold, Eisenstein and Biomechanics: Actor Training in Revolutionary Russia (Law Alma)(Paperback)

Russian theater director Vsevolod Meyerhold designed Biomechanics--a system of actor training--shortly after the Russian Revolution. Although not always understood, it received wide attention as a result of Meyerhold's unique position as the foremost Soviet avant-garde director. Meyerhold had

Michael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner: Collisions and Convergence in Actor Training (Deshpande Hutchinson Anjalee)(Paperback)

Michael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner: Collisions and Convergence in Actor Training offers a comprehensive analysis of the Sanford Meisner Acting Technique in comparison to the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique. This compilation reveals the connections as well as the contradictions between these two

Teaching Strategies for Neurodiversity and Dyslexia in Actor Training: Sensing Shakespeare (Whitfield Petronilla)(Paperback)

Teaching Strategies for Neurodiversity and Dyslexia in Actor Training addresses some of the challenges met by acting students with dyslexia and highlights the abilities demonstrated by individuals with specific learning differences in actor training. The book offers six tested teaching strategies,

Training Actors' Voices: Towards an Intercultural/Interdisciplinary Approach (McAllister-Viel Tara)(Paperback)

Contemporary actor training in the US and UK has become increasingly multicultural and multilinguistic. Border-crossing, cross-cultural exchange in contemporary theatre practices, and the rise of the intercultural actor has meant that actor training today has been shaped by multiple modes of

Laboratory and Field Exercises in Sport and Exercise Biomechanics (Watkins James)(Paperback)

Laboratory and Field Exercises in Sport and Exercise Biomechanics is the first book to fully integrate practical work into an introduction to the fundamental principles of sport and exercise biomechanics.The book concisely and accessibly introduces the discipline of biomechanics and describes the

Film Form: Essays in Film Theory (Eisenstein Sergei)(Paperback)

From Sergei Eisenstein, a legendary pioneer in filmmaking and director of Battleship Potemkin, Film Form collects twelve essays written between 1928 and 1945 that demonstrate key points in the development of his film theory and in particular his analysis of the sound-film medium.'By turns savagely

Elephant (Pickering Paul)(Paperback / softback)

In a country house in England a precocious teenage exile from revolutionary Russia sets down his adventures on paper, beginning with his first ball in St Petersburg and how he frees a huge African elephant from a cruel

Complete Vocal Fitness: A Singer's Guide to Physical Training, Anatomy, and Biomechanics (Friedlander Claudia)(Paperback)

Complete Vocal Fitness is a primer on sport-specific training for vocalists and a guide to how the vocal instrument functions. Elite athletes apply cutting-edge research in movement and physiology to customize fitness regimens that ensure peak performance for

Acting and Reacting: Tools for the Modern Actor (Moseley Nick)(Paperback)

A brand-new actor-training system developed by the head of acting at the Italia Conti Academy. Nick Moseley takes the best of Stanislavsky, David Mamet, and Meisner to fuel his own intensely practical approach. The result is a punchy and empowering book intended to shake up ideas about acting. Each

Local Politics and Democratization in Russia (Ross Cameron)(Paperback)

An Actor's Work (Stanislavski Konstantin)(Paperback)

Stanislavski's 'system' has dominated actor-training in the West since his writings were first translated into English in the 1920s and 30s. His systematic attempt to outline a psycho-physical technique for acting single-handedly revolutionized standards of acting in the theatre. Until now,

Law and the Family in Ireland, 1800-1950 (Howlin Niamh)(Paperback)

Undergraduate and postgraduate students of family and law, and academics in the fields of law and history Lawyers, scholars, historians and social scientists interested in legal history and history of the family, specifically pertaining to

Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary (Horne Gerald)(Paperback)

A world-famous singer and actor, a trained lawyer, an early star of American professional football and a polyglot who spoke over a dozen languages. These could be the crowning achievements of a life well-lived, yet for Paul Robeson the higher calling of social justice led him to abandon both the

Mud and Stars - Travels in Russia (Wheeler Sara)(Paperback / softback)

Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000-1900: A Sourcebook (Kivelson Valerie A.)(Paperback)

This sourcebook provides the first systematic overview of witchcraft laws and trials in Russia and Ukraine from medieval times to the late nineteenth century. Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000-1900 weaves scholarly commentary with never-before-published primary source materials translated from

Actor And The Text (Berry Cicely)(Paperback / softback)

'The Actor & the Text' brings together the elements of articulation and verbal clarity in a practical way. Building on specific exercises, it relates the practicality of voice production to the challenge of a difficult

Russia in War and Revolution, 1914-1922 - A Documentary History(Paperback / softback)

Code of the Illuminati (Barruel Abb Augustin)(Paperback)

In 1776 Adam Weishaupt, a respected German professor of Canon Law, founded a covert revolutionary group - The Illuminati - a secret society dedicated to destroying repressive regimes and shaping a world government in terms of Liberty and Equality. These ideals surfaced with violent emphasis during

A History of Russian Cinema (Beumers Birgit)(Paperback)

Film emerged in pre-Revolutionary Russia to become the 'most important of all arts' for the new Bolshevik regime and its propaganda machine. The 1920s saw a flowering of film experimentation, notably with the work of Eisenstein, and a huge growth in the audience for film, which continued into the

I an Actor (Craig Nicholas)(Paperback / softback)

Another great actor explores himself and his profession in this terrifically scathing parody of the theatrical memoir. Hilarious, vindictive and very

Life in Revolutionary France (Harder Mette)(Paperback)

The French Revolution brought momentous political, social, and cultural change. Life in Revolutionary France asks how these changes affected everyday lives, in urban and rural areas, and on an international scale. An international cast of distinguished academics and emerging scholars present new

Crime and Punishment - Fjodor Michajlovič Dostojevskij

Poverty-stricken and cut off from society, former law student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov leads a desolate life in a dreary little room in St Petersburg. Having abandoned all hopes of sustaining himself through work, he now obsesses over the idea of changing his fortunes through an extreme act of

Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture (Russo Alessandro)(Paperback)

In Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture, Alessandro Russo presents a dramatic new reading of China's Cultural Revolution as a mass political experiment aimed at thoroughly reexamining the tenets of communism. Russo explores four critical phases of the Cultural Revolution, each with its own

80/20 Running: Run Stronger and Race Faster by Training Slower (Fitzgerald Matt)(Paperback)

TRAIN EASIER TO RUN FASTER This revolutionary training method has been embraced by elite runners--with extraordinary results--and now you can do it, too. Respected running and fitness expert Matt Fitzgerald explains how the 80/20 running program--in which you do 80 percent of runs at a lower