The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act
By: Isaac Butler
4.26
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, Nonfiction NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 BY THE N…
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1. The Actor's Art and Craft: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique
By: William Esper , Damon DiMarco
4.48
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
William Esper, one of the leading acting teachers of our time, explains and extends Sanford Meisner… read more
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"Discipline is what separates the artist from the appreciator of art."-William Esper, The Actor's Art and Craft: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique
"Impulses are the most important things we have as artists. Stop judging them. Get out of their way and follow wherever they lead."-William Esper, The Actor's Art and Craft: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique
"Certain words, certain expressions. Things like ‘I love you’ and ‘I hate you.’ They’re big traps for actors. They can tempt you away from the connection you’ve developed with your partner and lead yo…"-William Esper, The Actor's Art and Craft: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique
2. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
By: Stephen Greenblatt
3.87
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
Named One of Esquire 's 50 Best Biographies of All Time The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award… read more
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- history
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3. Sanford Meisner on Acting
By: Sanford Meisner , Dennis Longwell , Sydney Pollack
4.20
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
This book, written in collaboration with Dennis Longwell, follows an acting class of eight men and … read more
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"The text is your greatest enemy."-Sanford Meisner, Sanford Meisner on Acting
"The American actor is very lucky... Because so little is asked of him."-Sanford Meisner, Sanford Meisner on Acting
"... as a convention, you get up and walk to the window to make the audience believe that you're looking out. It's for the audience , not for you! And what it means to you is something emotional [...]…"-Sanford Meisner, Sanford Meisner on Acting
4. Free for All: Joe Papp, the Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told
By: Kenneth Turan , Joseph Papp
4.53
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan takes you behind the scenes at the Public Theater and t… read more
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5. Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part
By: Michael Shurtleff
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Michael Shurtleff has been casting director for Broadway shows like Chicagoand Becketand for films … read more
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6. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
By: Peter Biskind
4.12
Format: None pages,
This down-and-dirty romp through Hollywood in the 1970s introduces the young filmmakers--Coppola, S… read more
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7. My Reading Life
By: Pat Conroy
3.50
Format: None pages,
Bestselling author Pat Conroy acknowledges the books that have shaped him and celebrates the profou… read more
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8. A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney: A Play
By: Lucas Hnath
3.68
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
Lucas Hnath's darkly clever A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Life of Walt Dis… read more
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9. The Actor and the Target: New Edition
By: Declan Donnellan
3.94
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
"Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it i… read more
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10. Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
By: Mark Harris
4.10
Format: None pages,
Explores the epic human drama behind the making of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 19… read more
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11. Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
By: Ed Zwick
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends … read more
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"One of Patsy Broderick's choicer comments was to describe my writing as ' limp as a penis ."-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
"I called Matthew Broderick. The radiophone was working again. 'Hi, Matthew, I hear you want to talk about the script. Over .' 'Yeah, well, I have a lot of notes…' He neglected to say “ over ."-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
"From the moment we met Patsy Broderick was contemptuous, demeaning, and volatile. As Matthew sat in opaque silence, I was forced to defend, in excruciating detail, my rationale for every line in ever…"-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
12. Cinema Speculation
By: Quentin Tarantino
4.06
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more
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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
13. Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers
By: Mary Rodgers
4.24
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The memoirs of Mary Rodgers Guettel--writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and "a woman who tried eve… read more
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14. Heroes of the Fourth Turning
By: Will Arbery
4.03
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
It's nearing midnight in Wyoming, where four young conservatives have gathered at a backyard after-… read more
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15. Great Expectations
By: Vinson Cunningham
3.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly a… read more
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"For him, identity had been a kind of curation or collation—he picked up aspects as he went, freestyle."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
"It had always struck me as a place to be lost, experienced passage by passage in a series of unfolding images—not something you could take in in one possessive glance."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
16. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
By: Matt Singer
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more
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17. The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood
By: Sam Wasson
4.09
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelator… read more
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18. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
By: Michael Schulman
4.09
Format: 589 pages, Hardcover
The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively histor… read more
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19. Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
By: Philip Gefter
4.04
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning writer reveals the behind-the-scenes story of the provocative play, the groundbrea… read more
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20. The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story
By: Sam Wasson
3.80
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and The Big Goodbye returns with t… read more
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21. Hollywood: The Oral History
By: Jeanine Basinger
4.04
Format: 768 pages, Paperback
The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine … read more
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22. Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
By: Dana Stevens
4.19
Format: 432 pages, ebook
Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and NPR In this genre-defying work … read more
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23. Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
By: Oliver Stone
4.10
Format: 373 pages, ebook
An intimate memoir by the controversial and outspoken Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about… read more
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"No greater satisfaction exists now than a paragraph well written in honor of something you value."-Oliver Stone, Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
"Destiny is never clear when it arrives. Sometimes we just refuse to do what we no longer feel good about doing. These moments are mysteries in our lives, but we know everything will change."-Oliver Stone, Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
24. Mike Nichols: A Life
By: Mark Harris
4.48
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent biography of one of the most protean creative forces in American entertainment histor… read more
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25. Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate, and the Price of a Vision
By: Charles Elton
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The “revelatory” ( The New Yorker ) first biography of critically acclaimed then critically derided… read more
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26. Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture―and the Magic That Makes It Work
By: Jesse David Fox
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated Book by Vulture , Elle, Chicago Tribune, The Millions , and Lit Hub " C… read more
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27. The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act
By: Isaac Butler
4.26
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, Nonfiction NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 BY THE N… read more
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28. The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
By: Prudence Peiffer
4.11
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the National Book Award The never-before-told story of an obscure little street at t… read more
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29. Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art
By: Sam Wasson
3.96
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Fosse, a sweeping yet intimate—and often hilarious—history of a uni… read more
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"Improvisors connect for the same basic reason you and your friends connect. Say you meet someone. You like something about them and they like something about you. Your mutual interest begets mutual p…"-Sam Wasson, Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art
30. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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31. 21-Hit Wonder: Flopping My Way to the Top of the Charts
By: Sam Hollander
4.28
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
As one of the most renowned songwriters and producers in the game, Sam Hollander has had multi-plat… read more
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