Why Does Acting Feel So Different Now?

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In this video I dive into the complicated history of how American Film Acting evolved from classical Hollywood theatricality into contemporary naturalism and why nobody can agree on what "Method Acting" actually is.

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// Sources:
- See Full Bibliography and References Here: https://open.substack.com/pub/thomasf...
- Brestoff, Richard. The Great Acting Teachers and Their Methods. Smith & Kraus, 1995.
- Butler, Issac. The Method : How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act. New York, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.
- Uta Hagen. Respect for Acting. 1973. Hoboken, N.J., John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
- Kissel, H., & Adler, S. (2000). Stella Adler - The Art of Acting. Hal Leonard Corporation
- Benedetti, Jean. Stanislavski : An Introduction. London, Methuen Drama, 1982.
- Konstantin Stanislavsky, and Jean Benedetti. An Actor’s Work : A Student’s Diary. London ; New York, Routledge, 2010.

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0:00 Why Does Acting Feel So Different Now?
06:04 Part 1: 'I Don't Follow The Method'
12:34 Part 2: The True Birth of The Method
20:08 Part 3 The System (Or How Modern Acting Was Born)
33:24 Part 4: Why Nobody Understands Method Acting
37:53 Part 4b: The Invention of "Going Method"
44:32 Part 5: "There Is No System"

Correction:
19:40 Stella Adler was not one of Strasberg's students- They were in the same theatre group before they had a falling out.