| Description |
ix, 390 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
Over Kathleen Turner's forty-year career, she has developed an instinctual knowledge of what it takes to be a successful actor. In conversations with film professor Dustin Morrow, she shares her lessons with the world. |
| Contents |
Working with the script -- Directing yourself -- Working with directors -- Collaborating with other artists -- In the beginning... -- Lessons learned from working in television -- Choosing roles -- Body Heat -- The Man with Two Brains -- Romancing the Stone -- Crimes of Passion -- Prizzi's Honor -- Peggy Sue Got Married -- The Accidental Tourist -- The War of the Roses -- Serial Mom -- The Virgin Suicides -- The Perfect Family -- Working with edgy material -- Acting in film -- The state versus the screen -- Acting in the theater -- The intimacy of the theater -- Camille -- Reading reviews -- The Graduate -- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof -- Indiscretions -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf -- High -- Red Hot Patriot -- Mother Courage and Her Children -- The Year of Magical Thinking -- The life of an actor -- Fame, aging and vanity -- Using the voice -- Advice for developing actors -- Studying acting -- The process of auditioning -- Dealing with rejection -- Working in the industry -- Teaching acting -- Acting and daily life -- Looking ahead and moving forward -- A closer look at the film performances. |
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Acting.
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Actresses.
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Motion picture acting.
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Television acting.
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Acting. (OCoLC)fst00796146
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Actresses. (OCoLC)fst00796328
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Motion picture acting. (OCoLC)fst01027093
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Television acting. (OCoLC)fst01146639
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| Added Author |
Morrow, Dustin, author, interviewer.
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Morrow, Kacey, illustrator.
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| ISBN |
151073547X |
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9781510735477 |
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