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Your Film Acting Career: How to Break into the Movies and TV and Survive in Hollywood » (4th Edition)

Book cover image of Your Film Acting Career: How to Break into the Movies and TV and Survive in Hollywood by M. K. Lewis

Authors: M. K. Lewis, Rosemary R. Lewis
ISBN-13: 9780929149028, ISBN-10: 0929149025
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Gorham House Publishing
Date Published: September 1997
Edition: 4th Edition

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Author Biography: M. K. Lewis

Book Synopsis

Newly revised and updated, Your Film Acting Career provides answers to hundreds of questions asked about the Hollywood scene: Finding work in TV, movies, commercials, industrials, new media, modeling, student films, theatre... Living in Los Angeles... Putting together effective resumes and photographs... Getting into the unions... Finding an agent... What producers, directors and casting directors want in interviews, cold readings, on the set... Choosing acting classes... Residuals, overtime, contracts... Restarting a stalled career... And much, much more.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Authors' Note
IPreparing to Go and Going1
IIThe Supplies You'll Need33
IIITheatrical Agents83
IVSeeking Work111
VWorking149
VICommercials167
VIIOther Kinds of Work189
VIIIMerrily You Roll Along217
Appendix241
Index289

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