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| Actors
Turned Directors |
| On
Eliciting the Best Performance from an Actor and Other
Secrets of Successful Directing |
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Stevens, 300 pages, 6x9, illus., 1-879505-34-7, $19.95
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“In
Actors Turned Directors, the reader will not only learn
of the challenges faced in moving behind the movie camera,
but also will learn much about the whole process of making
motion pictures. A most interesting read.”
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Robert Wise
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Ten highly
popular and acclaimed film directors whose careers
began in front of the cameras candidly offer their
insights into the all-important and underexplored subject
of directing actors.
Each actor-turned-director discusses filmmaking and acting
as observed from and practiced on both sides of the camera
and offers invaluable guidelines and tips on casting,
rehearsing, communicating and working with actors, and
the whole of the moviemaking process.
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Jon Stevens is
a writer/director whose most recent feature film is Irish
Whiskey. He serves on the publications committee of the
Directors Guild of America, with whose support this book
was prepared. |
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