Acting for the camera / Tony Barr ; with exercises by Eric Stephan Kline.

[Pt.] 1: Acting. Film and stage : two sides of the same coin ; The development of film-acting styles ; The approach ; Acting defined ; Listening/sensing ; The character ; Focus and concentration ; Energy ; The emotions ; Spontaneity -- [Pt.] 2: Working on the role. Preparation ; Facts and conditions ; Imagination ; Learn the role--not the lines -- Station break -- [Pt.] 3: Tools. Rhythm and change ; Dynamics ; Movement ; The need ; Selectivity ; Personalization ; Animation and inanimate object images ; The nonsense exercise--unorthodoxy ; Comedy and drama from the actor´s point of view ; Cold reading and auditions ; Working with the director ; Working from the outside in--or not ; In a nutshell -- [Pt.] 4: The machinery of film and tape. Day one on the set ; The motion picture studio and the soundstage ; Some specifics of film ; Shooting a scene ; The television studio ; The multiple-camera show ; Stunts -- [Pt.] 5: The film/tape career. Beginning your career ; Film and television unions for actors ; The star ; Exercises for acting for the camera.