Scott Balcerzak is associate professor of film and media in the Department of English at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity (Wayne State University Press, 2013). He is also the co-editor of Cinephilia in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Film, Pleasure, and Digital Culture, Vols. 1 and 2.
Balcerzak's insightful, astute interpretations and observations
across a range of media and actors make Beyond Method a dense read,
richly rewarding the effort.--Diane Carson "Journal of Film and
Video"
Beyond Method: Stella Adler and the Male Actor is an invaluable
contribution to the history of acting, not only on the screen, but
across media as well. Using newly observed archival resources, he
is finally able to give Stella Adler her due within this history.
Moreover, this book aids in disentangling the often-confusing ideas
about the Method by correcting the public record about two of the
actors (Brando, De Niro) wrongly associated with this practice.
Instead, Balcerzak's research provides an entirely new narrative,
not only related to the trope of acting, but for Stella Adler, one
of the most important figures of the twentieth century.--R. Colin
Tait "The Journal of Popular Culture"
The connections between politics, social currents, and acting
techniques are drawn out in Beyond Method, Scott Balcerzak's
illuminating book on Stella Adler's teachings and masculinity on
screen. [. . .] Acting [. . .] is what it is in part because it
announces itself as such. [This book] helps us to understand the
amplitude of that announcement and find both the magic and labor in
it.--Nicholas Forster "Cineaste"
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