Getting Into Character
Author | : Brandilyn Collins |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2002-03-11 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39076002172158 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Download or read book Getting Into Character written by Brandilyn Collins and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early twentieth century, Russian director Constantin Stanislavsky transformed the acting world with a series of techniques he called ?method acting.' By discovering the inner life of a character, actors learned to bring emotional realism to their roles as never before. In Getting Into Character, Collins takes seven of the most eye-opening techniques of the Stanislavsky method and adapts them to the art of writing fiction. Like actors, writers learn how to personalise characters, determine their action objectives in a scene, write subtexted dialogue and much more. Collins concludes each chapter with excerpts from both a familiar classic and a modern bestseller to illustrate how top-notch authors'from Jane Austen to Steve Martini'have used these same techniques to great effect.