Method acting is more than mining personal experiences to play a character — or physically transforming for a role. Author Isaac Butler traces... How the Method transformed film — and made acting more ...

Hyperallergic talks to historian Isaac Butler and curator Livia Bloom Ingram about how performance technique evolves and what is and isn’t method acting. Hyperallergic: Could you explain the origin of ...

Under the studio system, early American movie stars like Cary Grant worked on contract, frequently playing the same character — or the same type of character — across their careers. But author Isaac ...

Method actor Robert De Niro won the Oscar in 1981 for his performance as a retired boxer in Raging Bull. Under the studio system, early American movie stars like Cary Grant worked on contract, ...