List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Making Modern Acting Visible
Chapter 1: A Twenty-First-Century Perspective
Chapter 2: Acting Strategies, Modern Drama, New Stagecraft
Chapter 3: Modern Acting: A Conscious Approach
Chapter 4: Modern Acting: Obscured by the Method’s “American” Style
Part II: Acting and American Performing Arts
Chapter 5: Developments in Modern Theatre and Modern Acting, 1875-1930
Chapter 6: Shifting Fortunes in the Performing Arts Business
Park III: The Creative Labor of Modern Acting
Chapter 7: The American Academy of Dramatic Arts
Chapter 8: The Pasadena Playhouse
Chapter 9: Training in Modern Acting on the Studio Lots
Chapter 10: The Actors’ Laboratory in Hollywood
Part IV: Modern and Method Acting
Chapter 11: Modern Acting: Stage and Screen
Chapter 12: The Legacy of Modern Acting
Appendix: Group Theatre, Alfred Lunt, and Katharine Cornell Productions
Notes
.