Evi Stamatiou is a practitioner-researcher of actor training, bringing two decades of international experience as an actor and creative. She is a Senior Lecturer in Acting for Stage and Screen at the University of East London and holds a PhD from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK. A recipient of multiple awards and research grants, she is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and currently serves as Chair of the Acting Focus Group at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and board member of the Stanislavsky Research Centre. Evi's interdisciplinary work bridges acting with technology, education, psychology, and health sciences-advancing inclusive actor training and exploring the broader applications of acting in human development.

Sharon Marie Carnicke is best known for her groundbreaking study, Stanislavsky in Focus. Her other books include the recent Dynamic Acting through Active Analysis, Anton Chekhov: 4 Plays and 3 Jokes, and Checking out Chekhov. She has also published widely on screen performance and co-authored Reframing Screen Performance with Cynthia Baron. As a teacher of acting, she has conducted many intensive workshops on Active Analysis in the US, Europe, and Scandinavia. She is currently a professor of Dramatic Arts and Slavic Studies at the University of Southern California, USA, and founder of the Stanislavsky Institute for the 21st century.

Introduction

A. Positioning The Anthology Within Contemporary Screen Actor Training

B. Stanislavsky on Cinema and Film Acting

Part 1: Stanislavsky's concepts in the screen acting studio

1. Visualization: Stanislavsky and Rosenstein on Fostering Imagination and Concentration

2. "Fragmented" Radiation [Izlucheniya] for Camera

3. Accessing Stanislavsky's state of 'experiencing' [Perezhivanie] for the screen actor

4. Presence [Prisutstviye] Without Rehearsal: States of Being in Daily Television Production

Part 2: Active Analysis in the screenacting studio

5. Prompting Inner Monologue through Active Analysis

6. Embodying Active Analysis and Inner Monologue for the Screen

7. Reimagining Active Analysis: Cultivating Spontaneous Actor Responses for the Screen

Part 3: Adapting Stanislavsky for screenacting processes

8. Exploring Internal vs. External Tempo-Rhythm: Live-Editing in Screen Acting Training

9. The Film Actor Prepares with Michael Chekhov and SynthAnalysis(TM)

10. In-Camera Études: Delivering Purposeful, Precise, and Readable Performances in Every Take

Part 4: Pedagogical Innovations Inspired by Stanislavsky

11. Discovering Sensorial Shakespeare Through Language and Focal Points

12. Bridging Practices: Enhancing Mike Leigh's Method Through Stanislavsky's Tools

13. Ethnoacting in VR for Resilience in Screen Actors: a Vakhtangov-inspired intervention

Index