The Actress

The Actress: Hollywood Acting and the Female Star investigates the contemporary film actress both as an artist and as an ideological construct. Divided into two sections, The Actress first examines the major issues in studying film acting, stardom, and the Hollywood actress. Combining theories of screen acting and of film stardom, The Actress presents a synthesis of methodologies and offers the student and scholar a new approach to these two subjects of study.

Reproduction of the original: The Actress's Daughter by May Agnes Fleming

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

When Annabel, who wants to be a famous actress someday, has a part in a real play, she finds she must cope with a big dog and an unruly audience member.

When she learns that a famous director is making a movie in her home town, ten-year-old Annabel is determined to get a part in it.

The famous, well-known Hungarian bestseller finally in English language! The Actress is one of Hungary's best-known artists, winner of several state awards. The girl is a college student, determined, young and beautiful - she's a ticket taker at the theatre in the evenings. Their fate unfolds within the walls of a downtown theatre, from an initial friendship to love, and then to an eight-year relationship full of extremes and excitement, set against a backdrop of theatre, a web of interests and the scrutiny of society - a true rarity in the divided art world. Can such an all-consuming love exist, and if so, how does it work? What kind of person is The Actress, what does she write in her secret diary, and how can the "actor's self" be defined? What is the closed, inner world of a real, contemporary, Hungarian theatre like? Who pulls the strings, how are the big decisions made? What is the showcase and what is the product itself? What is the role of the spectator in all this? What goes on behind the curtain? - And how can all this be reconciled with reality? I have been the protagonist in this story for eight years in order to write it credibly. A true story by the young girl - a real drama on stage and in life, with a cathartic finale.

Sara the Actress By Alimohammad Afghani In Sara the Actress, the prolific Iranian author Alimohammad Afghani presents what he calls a “novel/play” depicting the attempt by a group of young performers to put on a new theatrical production in Tehran. At the center of this production, and Afghani’s new book, is the captivating and thoroughly beautiful character, Sara. It is her interaction with her family, her friends and, ultimately, with the powerful in her society that animates this charming and thought-provoking tale—and that will capture and delight the many readers of this engaging new book.