Tools and Techniques for Character Interpretation: A Handbook of Psychology for Actors, Writers, and Directors

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Hal Leonard Corporation, 2006 - Performing Arts - 325 pages
Actor and author Blumenfeld offers practical suggestions and exercises for applying different theories of psychology, such as psychoanalysis, object relations, and existentialism, to character interpretation. He explains these various theories and their terminology and offers character studies that exemplify psychological concepts based on characte

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Contents

Sigmund Freud Father of PSYCHOANALYSIS
13
ANNA FREUD
71
MELANIE KLEIN AND OBJECTRELATIONS THEORY
89
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
111
Georg Groddeck AND The Book
123
WILHELM REICH AND CHARACTER ANALYSIS
135
THE THEORIES OF WILLIAM James
151
PSYCHOLOGICAL TERMS AND TOPICS
175
SHAKESPEARES TIMELESS PSYCHOLOGICAL THEMES
229
The Development
253
ANTON CHEKHOV
265
Six MODERN PLAYS
283
Selected Bibliography
309
Acting and Theater 309 Plays and Playwrights 310 Psychology and Psychoanalysis
317
List of Plays
323
Copyright

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About the author (2006)

Robert Blumenfeld is an an actor, dialect coach, and writer. Mr. Blumenfeld has been on the faculties of both the Stella Adler and the National Shakespeare Conservatories. On Broadway he was dialect coach for the musicals Saturday Night Fever and The Scarlet Pimpernel (the third version and national tour). Mr. Blumenfeld received the1997 Canadian National Institute for the Blind's Torgi Award for the Talking Book of the Year in the Fiction category for his recording of Pat Conroy's Beach Music, and the 1999 Alexander Scourby Talking Book Narrator of the Year Award in the Fiction category.He holds a B.A. in French from Rutgers University and an M.A. in French Language and Literature from Columbia University. He lives in New York City.

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