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Robert Benedetti Producer/Director - Writer - Teacher - Consultant
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Books
TWO NEW NOVELS FROM ROBERT BENEDETTI AVAILABLE AT (click on link for descriptions and orders) $15 each - Inexpensive shipping options available
published by Durban House also available at Amazon.com click here for critical praise for The Long Italian Goodbye AUTOGRAPHED COPIES OF THE LONG ITALIAN GOODBYE NOW AVAILABLE AT A REDUCED PRICE. $16 plus $4 shipping. Order only at benedetti1@verizon.net. The Italian neighborhood surrounding Oakley Avenue on Chicago's West Side in 1948 is a Tuscan village transplanted from northern Italy thirty years before. Joey is ten, an only child born of the Great Depression, weaned on the lustrous myths of the neighborhood's gangster past, and reveling in the cooking of his Tuscan grandmothers. This is, for Joey, that special year when boyhood ends, a year of extremes of joy and grief. He earns money by delivering coffee to the black workers in the neighborhood factory, and becomes aware for the first time of the place of black people in his world. During the traditional summer retreat of the neighborhood's mothers and children to a rural Michigan lakefront town, he experiences the first stirrings of romantic love, but also the numbing pain of the death of his best friend. He comes to doubt the very existence of God, and learns that life is not what he had imagined, that even the joy of a kiss will be forever tinged with mortality. He returns to the city a changed person, his faith shaken but his conscience awakened, and he takes his first small stand against injustice. As the year ends, his family moves away from the old neighborhood and Joey leaves behind its sights, sounds, smells, and people, especially his first love Benita, and a big piece of himself.
Actor at Work, The (10th Edition) published by Allyn and Bacon also available at Amazon.com
The Actor at
Work is the standard in its field, consistently providing students
with a comprehensive yet simple look into the techniques and demands
of acting. For more than thirty years, the highly acclaimed The
Actor at Work has offered students a thorough look at the underlying
principles of the acting process. Centered on the concept of action,
The Actor at Work covers all the major skills of the actor,
including voice, speech, movement, analysis and role-playing. Using
many ideas from contemporary psychology and various physical and
spiritual disciplines, this text helps students uncover and develop
the actors within themselves, as it encourages self-discovery
through participatory activities and exercises.
published by Allyn and Bacon also available at Amazon.com
The Actor in
You serves as an introduction to beginning acting by helping
students realize that they already possess the basic skills of an
actor. This text enhances the student's appreciation of the
art of acting by helping them realize that they already possess, in
principle, the following skills: the ability to play a role, the
ability to fulfill the sense of drama and to structure dramatic
scenes, and the capacity to express emotion. Without losing its
simplicity, directness, and enjoyable writing style, this revised
and enlarged edition has benefited from helpful suggestions by
teachers who have used it successfully in the classroom. Drawing
exercises and examples from students' everyday lives and from
well-known films and television programs, Benedetti succeeds in
deducing dramatic principles from those experiences and then
applying them to everyday life for artistic purpose. Still organized
in sixteen steps meant to correspond to the weeks of a typical
semester or school year, The Actor in You provides a direct, concise
presentation and explanation of fundamentals for beginning students.
published by Allyn and Bacon also available at Amazon.com
In
ACTION!, Peabody and multiple Emmy ® award-winning producer and
leading teacher of acting Bob Benedetti offers a practical,
detailed, and clearly structured approach to the fundamentals of
acting for the camera.
published by Allyn and Bacon also available at Amazon.com
Creative Postproduction explains the creative aspects of film and
video postproduction so as to enhance the understanding and
appreciation of film and television. This text provides essential
insight into the postproduction process for general film students;
those headed for careers as directors, cinematographers, producers,
or writers; and those who want to pursue a career in the area of
postproduction itself. While focusing on the creative aspects, it
discusses many technical considerations along the way and covers
up-to-date technological developments. With clear language and a
wealth of real-life experience, this text shows how creativity
continues to the very end of the filmmaking process.
published by Allyn and Bacon also available at Amazon.com Written by an Emmy-award-winning producer and teacher, this book focuses on the underlying principles of film and television production, emphasizing the creative rather than the technical aspects. The book describes how a film is created — from conception to screen — and provides a comprehensive overview of the entire production process. Not intended as a “how-to” book, this text presents only a limited amount of detailed technical information. Instead, it emphasizes the underlying principles and processes of primarily four kinds of films: feature, independently financed, made-for-network-television, and made-for-cable movies.
published by Allyn and Bacon also available at Amazon.com Presents the principles and strategies of stage direction. Strives to prepare the student to think like a director when confronting a situation, and thereby to fashion his/her approach to suit the demands of the material, cast, stage, and audience.
Seeming, Being, and Becoming: Acting in Our Century
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