78 résultats pour "actor"
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Acting
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Lee Strasberg
American acting teacher Lee Strasberg was best known for his association with the Actors Studio, of which he became the
artistic director in 1951.
truthfully felt those emotions at the moment they expressed them. Finding the true feeling in the proper place and time on stage, however, was a problem that Aristotleaddressed less well. He concluded that acting was an occupation for the gifted or insane. How to cross the artistic boundary beyond feigned emotions and flat imitation obsessed many Greek actors. In 315 BC the tragedian Polus carried the real ashes of his recently deceased son in an urn to stimulate a sense of genuine grief when h...
- Denzel Washington Denzel Washington, born in 1954, American motion-picture, theater, and television actor, one of the major African American actors of the late 20th century.
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Asian Theater
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Asian Theater, live performance, featuring actors or puppets, native to Asia, a continent with more than 2 billion people of many nations and cultures.
III THEATER IN EAST ASIA Theater in East Asia includes the traditions of China, Japan, and Korea. Most Chinese theater is urban, secular (nonreligious) entertainment, influenced by the ethics of Confucianism. However, a belief in spirits influences rituals performed by ethnic minorities in China, and Buddhism dominates traditional Tibetan performance. Japanesedramatic forms combine native shamanistic performance, secular entertainment, and cultural or religious influences from China and Kore...
- Jodie Foster Jodie Foster, born in 1962, American motion-picture actor, director, and Academy Award winner, who began her career as a child actor.
- Actors Studio - encyclopédie du théâtre.
- Marlon Brando Marlon Brando (1924-2004), American actor known for his use of the naturalistic "method" style of acting (see Stanislavsky Method).
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Westerns
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Gene Autry
Known as the Singing Cowboy, Gene Autry was the star of nearly 100 Westerns during his career as an actor.
James Fenimore CooperNineteenth-century American writer James Fenimore Cooper, famed for his adventure novels of American frontier life, wasalso an ardent social critic. Cooper wrote a series of five novels, known collectively as the Leather-Stocking Tales, in whichhe detailed the adventures of a fictional frontiersman named Natty Bumppo. In Bumppo, Cooper portrayed a man ofnature and a friend of the Native Americans. In addition to fiction, Cooper wrote several nonfiction works criticizingAmeri...
- John Huston John Huston (1906-1987), American motion-picture director and actor, who created some of the most critically acclaimed films of American cinema in his long and distinguished career.
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- Clint Eastwood I INTRODUCTION Clint Eastwood, born in 1930, American motion-picture actor, director, and producer.
- Tom Hanks Tom Hanks, born in 1956, American motion-picture actor, a two-time Academy Award winner who is acclaimed for both his comic and dramatic performances.
- Robert De Niro Robert De Niro, born in 1943, American motion-picture actor, often hailed as one of the most brilliant of his generation.
- Tom Cruise Tom Cruise, born in 1962, American motion-picture actor, who became a celebrity in the 1980s after his performance in Risky Business (1983), a satire of suburban adolescence.
- Paul Newman Paul Newman, born in 1925, American actor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who won an Academy Award for his role in The Color of Money (1986).
- Jack Nicholson Jack Nicholson, born in 1937, American motion-picture actor, writer, director, and producer, known for his enigmatic, faintly menacing grin and his skill in portraying nonconformist loners.
- James Cagney James Cagney (1899-1986), American actor and Academy Award winner, noted for his tough-guy roles.
- Jimmy Stewart Jimmy Stewart (1908-1997), American actor, known for his distinctive drawl and endearing sincerity.
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- James Dean James Dean (1931-1955), American actor on film, stage, and television, whose early death in an automobile accident contributed to his enduring legend.
- John Wayne John Wayne (1907-1979), American motion-picture actor, beloved as the archetype of rugged, honest American manhood, and a Hollywood star for 40 years.
- Orson Welles Orson Welles (1915-1985), American actor, producer, director, and writer, most noted for directing and starring in the landmark motion picture Citizen Kane (1941).
- Katharine Hepburn Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003), American actor, winner of four Academy Awards for best actress, noted for her unique combination of timeless beauty, wit, and fiery passion.
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- Judy Garland Judy Garland (1922-1969), American motion picture actor and singer.
- Henry Fonda Henry Fonda (1905-1982), American actor, best known for his convincing portrayals of characters of integrity.
- Jerry Lewis (entertainer) Jerry Lewis (entertainer), born in 1926, American motion-picture actor and director, known for his screwball comedies.
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- Rudolph Valentino Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926), Italian-born motion-picture actor, considered the archetypal screen lover, idolized by female fans of the 1920s.
- Gene Kelly Gene Kelly (1912-1996), American tap and ballet dancer, choreographer, actor, and director, known for his work in motion-picture musicals.
- Robert Redford Robert Redford, born in 1936, American actor, director, and producer, known for his intelligence, striking appearance, and commercial success.
- Robin Williams Robin Williams, born in 1952, American comedian and actor, who has gradually transitioned from strictly comic roles to more serious performances.
- Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), American motion-picture actor, who became the most famous international sex symbol of the 20th century.
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Herman Melville
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Herman Melville
These lines (recited by an actor) begin the novel Moby Dick (1851), by Herman Melville.
short novel Billy Budd in manuscript form. Melville’s death in New York City on September 28, 1891, went virtually unnoticed. None of his books was still in print. VI MELVILLE’S EARLY WORKS With the exception of Mardi , all of Melville’s early books are narratives of maritime adventure based upon his own experiences and on his wide reading. Although London publisher John Murray accepted Typee for his Home and Colonial Library as a strictly factual account of South Seas travel, he was lar...
- Clark Gable Clark Gable (1901-1960), American motion-picture actor, best known for his portrayal of Rhett Butler in the film Gone with the Wind.
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Theater
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The Art of Theater
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Theater at EpidaurusAncient Greek dramas were performed in open-air theaters like this one in Epidaurus, Greece, which was designed byPolyclitus the Younger in 350 bc. A festival of ancient Greek drama is still held in the summer in this 14,000-seat theater.Roger Wood/Corbis Fundamental to the theater experience is the act of seeing and being seen; in fact, the word theater comes from the Greek word theatron , meaning 'seeing place.' Throughout the history of world cultures, actors have used...
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L'actors Studio (histoire)
actors Studio entretient des relations encore plus etroites avec certains realisateurs de cinema. Certains ont ete formes a la Methode, comme comediens, avant de devenir realisateurs, que ce soit a l'Actors Studio comme Sydney Pollack, Arthur Penn ou Mark Rydell, ou a !'American Academy of Dramatic Arts de New York, autre ecole appliquant la Methode, comme John Cassavetes. D'autres realisateurs, avant de devenir de grands noms de la television et du cinema, sont d'abord des hommes de theatre com...
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Life - The Best Play Ever (Erving Goffmann)
● Nowadays, we observe more and more often that there is a lack of interpersonal communication, such as "face to face". The more we emphasizes the development of modern technology, the more it seems that this type of communication appears to hinder , and more, this affects communication with the individual self. By "individual and social imaginary" as Erving Goffman calls it in the book "Presentation of self in everyday life”, the real individual self (mine or yours) is partially repla...
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Historia del cine.
Asalto y robo de un tren tuvo un gran éxito y contribuyó de forma notable a que el cine se convirtiera en un espectáculo masivo. Las pequeñas salas de cine, conocidas como nickelodeones, se extendieron por Estados Unidos, y el cine comenzó a surgir como industria. La mayoría de las películas, de una sola bobina, de la época erancomedias breves, historias de aventuras o grabaciones de actuaciones de los actores teatrales más famosos del momento. 4 LAS PELÍCULAS MUDAS Entre 1909 y 1912 todos los...
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Historia del cine - historia.
Asalto y robo de un tren tuvo un gran éxito y contribuyó de forma notable a que el cine se convirtiera en un espectáculo masivo. Las pequeñas salas de cine, conocidas como nickelodeones, se extendieron por Estados Unidos, y el cine comenzó a surgir como industria. La mayoría de las películas, de una sola bobina, de la época erancomedias breves, historias de aventuras o grabaciones de actuaciones de los actores teatrales más famosos del momento. 4 LAS PELÍCULAS MUDAS Entre 1909 y 1912 todos los...
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American Literature: Drama
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American Literature: Drama, literature intended for performance, written by Americans in the English language.
American plays, while still a minority, began to appear in the theater repertory in the 19th century. Although American plays were still styled after British models, theirsubject matter came to be based on specifically American incidents or themes. In the United States as in Britain, many plays reflected the influence of romanticism , a European literary and artistic movement. Melodrama, with its outpourings of emotion, was the most prevalent dramatic form in the 19th century. Gothic melodramas...
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William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright and poet, recognized in much of the world as the greatest of all dramatists.
Shakespeare’s reputation today is, however, based primarily on the 38 plays that he wrote, modified, or collaborated on. Records of Shakespeare’s plays begin toappear in 1594, when the theaters reopened with the passing of the plague that had closed them for 21 months. In December of 1594 his play The Comedy of Errors was performed in London during the Christmas revels at Gray’s Inn, one of the London law schools. In March of the following year he received payment for two playsthat had been per...
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William Shakespeare.
Shakespeare’s reputation today is, however, based primarily on the 38 plays that he wrote, modified, or collaborated on. Records of Shakespeare’s plays begin toappear in 1594, when the theaters reopened with the passing of the plague that had closed them for 21 months. In December of 1594 his play The Comedy of Errors was performed in London during the Christmas revels at Gray’s Inn, one of the London law schools. In March of the following year he received payment for two playsthat had been per...
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William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet William Shakespeare, who lived in the late 1500s and early 1600s, is regarded as the greatest
dramatist in the history of English literature.
Avon, Warwickshire, a prosperous town in the English Midlands. Based on this record and on the fact that children in Shakespeare’s time were usually baptized two orthree days after birth, April 23 has traditionally been accepted as his date of birth. The third of eight children, William Shakespeare was the eldest son of John Shakespeare, a locally prominent glovemaker and wool merchant, and Mary Arden, thedaughter of a well-to-do landowner in the nearby village of Wilmcote. The young Shakespeare...
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Historia del cine - historia.
Edison e Eastman con una cámaraThomas Edison (derecha) trabajando con George Eastman en una cámara cinematográfica. Además de inventar la bombilla, elfonógrafo y el generador eléctrico, Edison desarrolló la tecnología cinematográfica y sincronizó películas con sonido grabado,realizando las primeras películas del cine sonoro.Culver Pictures Hasta 1890, los científicos estaban interesados principalmente en el desarrollo de la fotografía más que en el de la cinematografía. Esto cambió cuando el ant...
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Tragedy
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Euripides
Unlike other 5th-century BC Greek playwrights, tragic poet Euripides addressed the plight of the common people, rather
than that of mythic heroes.
SenecaSeneca was a Roman philosopher, dramatist, and statesman. His tragedies later influenced Renaissance dramatists,including William Shakespeare. The bust of Seneca shown here is a Roman copy of a Greek original.Art Resource, NY Aeschylus is one of the best known of the ancient Greek tragic playwrights. The author of some 90 plays, he established many of the conventions of the tragic dramaticform, which he perfected throughout his career. Aeschylus's skillful use of poetic language and brilli...
- Elizabeth Taylor Elizabeth Taylor, born in 1932, American actor, an internationally celebrated and award-winning performer.
- Meryl Streep Meryl Streep, born in 1949, American motion-picture actor who is noted for her versatility.
- Sidney Poitier Sidney Poitier, born in 1927, American motion-picture actor, the first black to become a major Hollywood star.
- Humphrey Bogart Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957), American motion-picture actor, who achieved great success in gangster and tough-guy roles.
- Ingrid Bergman Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982), Swedish actor, born in Stockholm, and educated at the Royal Dramatic Theater School, Stockholm.
- Steve Martin Steve Martin, born in 1945, American comedian and writer, who emerged as a motion-picture actor of exceptional talent and range.
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- Elvis Presley Elvis Presley (1935-1977), American singer and actor, one of the most popular and influential entertainers of the 20th century.
- Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra (1915-1998), Italian American singer and motion-picture actor, one of the most famous American entertainers of his generation.