If you want to be a good actor, you can read these books!

Mondo Culture Updated on 2024-03-02

The action of holding a gun has become the object of imitation by everyone on the Internet, and it has become popular all over the Internet, and the reason for chasing it is because of the special identity and the fact that there is no acting skills, so today I recommend some books that you should read as an actor.

1. "Middle School Students in the Eighties".

This book is a ** collection. It contains more than 180 precious ** photos of photographer Ren Shulin, that is, the ** collection he named "middle school students in the 80s", and at the same time, together with these ** are the texts of more than a dozen experiencers and observers.

2. "Performance Training Method".

This book brings together Professor Lin Hongtong's nearly 60 years of experience in performance teaching, systematically introduces the training systems of various genres that are popular in the world, stands at the forefront of the world's performance training methods, and guides actors to find performance concepts and training methods that are truly suitable for them. At the same time, hundreds of easy-to-operate performance practice units are provided for actors, and the combination of text and performance practice makes performance practice progressive, flexible and personal, efficient and practical.

3. "Film Art".

The World's Most Widely Read Introduction to Film Studies The Baldwells are arguably the most prolific and greatest textbook writers in the United States and in the field of film studies, and their work has hardly been read by anyone in the film world.

4. The Grammar of Film Language

This book is a film narrative skills course written by Uruguayan film director Daniel Alijón based on his own creative practical experience, and its professionalism, practicality and classics are recognized by film and television schools around the world. The author does not do too much theoretical discussion on the filming of the film, but focuses on practical experience, conducts detailed and accurate research on various problems in the production process, and proposes effective solutions.

5. "Letter to Young Artists".

The author values the "senses", which is to open the senses, to open the sense of hearing, to feel the smell, weight, texture, shape and color with all one's heart, and to prepare oneself for the feeling of being rich before becoming an artist. The author points out that a true artist will not put himself in a comfortable and fixed living environment, he must constantly "leave", only in this way can he always maintain a lively, healthy and youthful vitality, lead the joy of creation, and feel the true beauty.

6, "Passionate Dream".

This book is an authoritative work on the history and connotation of methodology, and presents the training methods and contributions of methodology, which has a great influence on contemporary performing arts. Founder Strasberg builds on the discoveries of Stanislavsky and Vakhtangov to further explore the important issues that actors need to face when performing.

7, "The Deaf and Dumb Era".

The author uses a gentle tone, full of vitality and sincere Chinese, and a loving and warm gaze to look at the dreams and scars of his youth, to pass on the stories of those who have lived like himself, and to tell the stories of those who lost their voices in the deaf-mute era. This novel** was written at the age of 28, when he lived a two-sided life of working in a bank during the day and going home to write at night, "The day I finished writing, it was already summer. I knew I would never be able to write anything like this again, maybe I would be a different person, and from then on, I would live as another person. ”

8. "The History of Beauty".

This book presents the historical context of beauty, which is not only a history of art or aesthetics, but also a definition of the concept of beauty that the author fuses the two, covering the range from classical to modern. The book deals with beauty in painting, sculpture, architecture, film, photography, installation art, and literature, and is a wide range of fields that can be convincing to a wide range of readers.

9, "Making a Movie".

The author was born in the small Italian town of Rimini, and with his friends used books to perform "The Iliad", made dolls out of clay and paper shells, and hid in the house to put on makeup, admiring every real clown in the world. He never thought he would grow up, let alone make a movie, but when he shouted the phrase "ready, turn on, stop", it seemed as if he was born to do this business.

10, "How to Guide Actors".

This is a must-have book for directors, in which Hollywood star mentor Judith Weston shares her more than 30 years of teaching experience, deeply analyzes the psychological state of directors and actors in cooperation, helps directors keep a clear head on the busy set, and provides accurate and detailed guidance to actors. At the same time, the book lists the dilemmas that directors often encounter and the corresponding measures to help you deal with big-name actors who are difficult to communicate, grasp the scale and proportion of motivating actors, and avoid falling into the embarrassing situation of repeated reshoots.

11, "Poetic Body".

This book is the theater teaching notes of Jacques Lecock, a master of French theater in the 20th century, for more than 40 years, and it is also a first-hand account of Lecoq's thoughts. The book records in detail the origin and development of the "physical theater" that was later summarized by Lecock's student Ariana Mnushkin, and in those simple and authentic languages, Lecok injected new pulses into the drama with his vivid experience and creative aesthetic concepts, and burst out important inspirations for modern theater in the laws of action and the form of space.

12, "Six Lectures on Acting".

Boleslavsky's directing and teaching activities in the United States directly influenced hundreds of actors, producing leading figures in theater and film. This book is the culmination of his life's performance theory, and is regarded as an important milestone from the Stanley system to the American methodology, and has become a classic performance textbook around the world for more than 80 years. In China, since it was first translated and published in 1937, the book has had a profound impact on generations of Chinese actors.

13, "The Power of Actors".

The book provides in-depth script and character analysis, as well as a wealth of behind-the-scenes examples of the students she has taught, and is written in a way that is as easy and humorous as her daily teachings, making it a professional, easy-to-read, and practical acting guide that can also be valuable inspiration for directors or screenwriters.

14, "Actor's Self-cultivation".

This book is the second volume of the most important masterpiece of the world-famous actor, director, and theater theorist Alekseev Stanislavsky's "system" theory, "The Self-cultivation of Actors". The subtitle of the volume is "Self-cultivation in the Process of "Experiential Creation", indicating that the author mainly discusses the "experiential" process, which is one of the core of the performing arts.

15. "The Oral Art as Performance".

This book is one of the famous and representative works of the famous American folklorist Richard Bowman. As one of the programmatic works of the "performance school" of American folklore, this book concisely introduces the academic background of performance theory, the essence of "performance", the means of calibrating performance, the mode of performance, and the emergence of performance, and points out the significance of performance theory to the contemporary cultural research of folklore.

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