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acting, industry, and technology in US theater
Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)
"While Hollywood has long been called 'The Dream Factory', and theatrical entertainment more broadly has been called 'The Industry', the significance and ramifications of these names has rarely been explored. Far from innocent metaphors, Interchangeable Parts illuminates the striking overlaps between industrial rhetoric and practice and the development of theatrical and cinematic techniques for rehearsal and performance. Drawing from interviews, archives, and close readings of the textual legacy of major and lesser-known teachers and theoreticians, Holtcamp narrates the story of how actors learned to learn to act, and what that process, for both stage and screen, owed to the interchangeable parts and mass production revolutions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."
Introduction: immune to luck -- A dream of scales -- Taylor and the Experimental Theatre Company, Inc -- Cogs in the wheel -- "Are you willing to work hard?": chasing silent screen success -- I have this chart and it explains all of acting -- MGM University: learning to play in Hollywood -- "Oh, yes, you can teach acting" -- Four teachers: Strasberg, Adler, Meisner, and Hagen -- Epilogue: brave new stage.
Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 360-379).