Theatre and Film Reading List

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1 participant, 25 books

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Books about the craft of theatre and film. Personal interest and for directing. 

Challenge Books

Different Every Night: Freeing the Actor by Mike Alfreds

Different Every Night: Freeing the Actor

Mike Alfreds

To the Actor: On the Technique of Acting by Michael Chekhov

To the Actor: On the Technique of Acting

Michael Chekhov

Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic by Glenn Frankel

Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic

Glenn Frankel

Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino

Cinema Speculation

Quentin Tarantino

Fast Times and Excellent Adventures: The Surprising History of the '80s Teen Movie by James King

Fast Times and Excellent Adventures: The Surprising History of the '80s Teen Movie

James King

The Empty Space: A Book about the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate by Peter Brook

The Empty Space: A Book about the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate

Peter Brook

Dramaturgy: The Basics by Walter Byongsok Chon, Anne M. Hamilton

Dramaturgy: The Basics

Walter Byongsok Chon, Anne M. Hamilton

The Basics: Play Directing by Damon Kiely

The Basics: Play Directing

Damon Kiely

Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars by Lionel Friedberg, Scotty Bowers

Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars

Lionel Friedberg, Scotty Bowers

Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star by Tab Hunter

Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star

Tab Hunter

The Theater and Its Double by Antonin Artaud

The Theater and Its Double

Antonin Artaud

The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Joseph Campbell