Character Breakdown

Author: ZAWE. ASHTON
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
ISBN: 9781784740795
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
Cult heroine Zawe Ashton brings us a unique look at life, work and the absurdities of contemporary life Zawe Ashton has been acting since she was six. She has played many different roles, from 'cute little girl' to 'assassin with attitude', Oscar Wilde's Salome to St Trinian's schoolgirl to Fresh Meat's Vod. To stay sane, an actor must tread a high-wire between life and art, keep sight of where a character ends and the real person begins. So she doesn't lose herself completely. In Character Breakdown, Zawe scrolls through a version of her life. Or is it a version of her art? Or something in between. In it, she encounters glamour, horror, absurdity and questions like: is a life spent more on performance than reality any life at all?

Character Breakdown

Author: Zawe Ashton
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 147352489X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 229

Book Description
'Entertaining...revealing, shocking' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'Sublime' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS Actor and director Zawe Ashton brings us a unique look at life, work and the absurdities of today's world Zawe Ashton has been acting since she was six. She has played many different roles, from 'cute little girl' to 'assassin with attitude', Oscar Wilde's Salome to St Trinian's schoolgirl by way of Fresh Meat's Vod. In Character Breakdown, Zawe scrolls through a version of her life. Or is it a version of her art? Or something in between. In it, she encounters glamour, horror, absurdity and questions like: is a life spent more on performance than reality any life at all? 'Smart, funny, vivid, honest, dark, timely' The Times 'A smart, funny and well-written take-down of modern showbiz' Elizabeth Day, author of How To Fail Selected by Bernardine Evaristo as one her 20 books by Black British Womxn Writers

Character Analysis

Author: Wilhelm Reich
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374509808
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 579

Book Description
TABLE OF CONTENTS: PART 1: Technique. 1 Some Problems of Psychoanalytic Technique. 2 The Economic Viewpoint in the Theory of Analytic Therapy. 3 On the Technique of Interpretation and Of Resistance Analysis. 4 On the Technique of Character Analysis. 5 Indications and Dangers of Character Analysis. 6 On the Handling of the Transference. PART 2: Theory of Character Formation. 7 The Characterological Resolution of the Infantile Sexual Conflict. 8 The Genital Character and the Neurotic Character. 9 Childhood phobia and Character Formation. 10 Some Circumscribed Character Forms. 11 The Masochistic Character. 12 Some Observations on the Basic Conflict Between Need and Outer World. PART 3: From Psychoanalysis to Orgone Biophysics. 13 Psychic Contact and Vegetative Current. 14 The Expressive Language of the Living. 15 The Schizophrenic Split. 16 The Emotional Plague. Index.

Building a Character

Author: Constantin Stanislavski
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1780935676
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 271

Book Description
In this follow up to his most famous book, An Actor Prepares, Stanislavski develop his influential 'system' of acting by exploring the imaginative processes at the heart of the actor's craft. Building a Character deals with the physical realisation of character on the stage through such tools as expressions, movement and speech. It is a book in which every theory is inextricably bound up with practice - a perfect handbook to the physical art of acting. The work of Stanislavski has inspired generations of actors and trainers and - available now in the Bloomsbury Revelations series to mark the 150th anniversary of Stanislavski's birth - it remains an essential read for actors and directors at all stages of their careers.

Fahrenheit 451

Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743247221
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217

Book Description
Set in the future when "firemen" burn books forbidden by the totalitarian "brave new world" regime.

The Help

Author: Kathryn Stockett
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425245136
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 546

Book Description
Original publication and copyright date: 2009.

Nineteen eighty-four

Author: George Orwell
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
This is a dystopian social science fiction novel and morality tale. The novel is set in the year 1984, a fictional future in which most of the world has been destroyed by unending war, constant government monitoring, historical revisionism, and propaganda. The totalitarian superstate Oceania, ruled by the Party and known as Airstrip One, now includes Great Britain as a province. The Party uses the Thought Police to repress individuality and critical thought. Big Brother, the tyrannical ruler of Oceania, enjoys a strong personality cult that was created by the party's overzealous brainwashing methods. Winston Smith, the main character, is a hard-working and skilled member of the Ministry of Truth's Outer Party who secretly despises the Party and harbors rebellious fantasies.

A Tale of Two Cities Illustrated by (Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz))

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488

Book Description
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It depicts the plight of the French proletariat under the brutal oppression of t+E3he French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, and the corresponding savage brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events, most notably Charles Darnay, a French once-aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Sydney Carton, a dissipated English barrister who endeavours to redeem his ill-spent life out of love for Darnay's wife, Lucie Manette.

Lord of the Flies

Author: William Golding
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571290582
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301

Book Description
A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance. First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern classics. Now fully revised and updated, this educational edition includes chapter summaries, comprehension questions, discussion points, classroom activities, a biographical profile of Golding, historical context relevant to the novel and an essay on Lord of the Flies by William Golding entitled 'Fable'. Aimed at Key Stage 3 and 4 students, it also includes a section on literary theory for advanced or A-level students. The educational edition encourages original and independent thinking while guiding the student through the text - ideal for use in the classroom and at home.

Indies Unlimited: Authors' Snarkopaedia

Author: K. S. Brooks
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781480213425
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
In Volume One of the Authors' Snarkopaedia, sentences have been painstakingly crafted together using nouns, verbs and other words, bringing you paragraphs of text. These paragraphs flow into pages of expert tips, advice and insight for authors at all levels of the publication food chain. Any book can claim to offer this type of information, but they can't give you what sets the Indies Unlimited Authors' Snarkopaedia above the rest: the "je ne sais squat" of the high decorated staff of the Snarkology Department at the Indies Unlimited Online Academy. Their groundbreaking and empirical research over the years sheds new and snarkified light on subjects ranging from book publishing and marketing to the nuts and bolts of writing and technology. If you like information to grab you by the throat and smack you in the face, the Indies Unlimited Authors' Snarkopaedia is the reference book for you.