Stanislavsky in Focus

While Stanislavsky's name has dominated debates about acting for a century, his ideas have been viewed through pervasive veils of assumptions. In the West, actors routinely identify his System with Strasberg's Method and psychological realism. In Russia, Soviet Marxism limited Stanislavsky to the physical world and socialist realism. While illuminating some of the System's aspects (notably, realistic styles, Western notions of 'self', and logic), these assumptions have blurred others (drawn from Yoga, symbolism, and formalist attitudes towards texts).Carnicke, Sharon M. is the author of 'Stanislavsky in Focus', published 1998 under ISBN 9789057550706 and ISBN 9057550709.