Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In this new edition, Patrick Tucker retains the engaging style and useful structure of the first edition while addressing significant changes in current technology, ensuring that this volume will remain an indispensable resource for contemporary students of screen acting.

Updated for a new decade of screen performance possibilities, Secrets of Screen Actingis a magician's box of acting tricks for today's performer and makes the distinction between acting for the stage and for the screen. He explains that the actor, instead of starting with what is real and trying to portray that on screen, should work with the realities of the shoot itself, and then work out how to make it all appear realistic.

Tucker has created and developed several screen acting of a courses, and this book is an extension and explanation of a lifetime of work in the field. Containing over fifty acting exercises, this book leads the reader step-by-step through the elements of effective screen acting.

Refreshing in its informal approach and full of instructive anecdotes, Secrets of Screen Actingis an invaluable guide for those who wish to master the art of acting on-screen.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Table of Contents
• Preface to Second Edition
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Screen versus Stage
• 2 Film versus Television
• 1 The Frame
• 2 The Camera
• 3 Reactions and Business
• 4 Sound and Vocal Levels
• 5 Typecasting
• 6 Acting
• 7 Auditions
• 8 Rehearsals and Technicals
• 9 Directing Actors for the Screen
• 10 Announcers (and the Art of Being Interviewed)
• 11 The Shoot
• 12 The Editor and Editing
• Epilogue
• The Famous Screen Acting Checklist Acting
• Exercises
• Biographies
• Glossary
• Index