Directing Actors: Creating Memorable Performances for Film and Television

340 Pages·13.428 MB·English

by  Judith Weston

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DIRECTIN G
ACTORS

CREATING MEMORABLE PERFORMANCES
FOR FILM AND TELEVISION
JUDITH WESTON
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© 1996 Judith Weston
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When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder? Copyright 1974 by Mark Medoff
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Weston, Judith
Directing Actors: creating memorable performances for film & television / Judith
Weston
p. cm.
ISBN 10 0-941188-24-8
ISBN 13 978-0-941188-24-1
1. Motion pictures--Production and direction. 2. Television--Production and direction.
I. Title
PN1995.9.P7W45 1996
791.43°0233--de20 96-25539
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