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Inspiring and practical, Inner Drives goes to the very source of character motivation and action. Explores the fascinating world of archetypes, mythology, and the chakra system.
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Reads too much like a history book.......2007-10-03
I don't understand why the consensus rating is 5/5. I found this book extremely wordy and it reads like a history book. If you want dozens of pages on the historical aspects of (insert your favorite chakra here), then this book is for you. If you want to see the same movies quoted and re-quoted over and over as examples of (insert your favorite chakra here), then this book is for you. If your idea of fun is combing through over one hundred pages dripping with hippy-isms looking for the "meat" you can use, then this book is for you. However, if you want a book that gives you a fair amount of background on a subject, fresh movie examples, and then leaves you with concrete ideas and examples of how to leverage the content matter to improve your characters and stories, then this book is not for you.
Notice how many times I repeat "this book is for you" and you'll get the idea of how this books reads. I am disappointed, especially given the 5/5 rating. It's more a 2/5 in my opinion, I got almost nothing useful out of it.
Every Actor Needs This Book.......2007-06-27
And I thought I knew about acting. You know nothing until you apply this book. You can forget the first two chapters. Go back and read them later for a "wow" crash course in philosophy. Just accept that the chakra system works as viable structure (and how) start at chapter three and apply to your craft. Ms. Smith knows her stuff. I get so excited with this stuff.
So many books on the acting craft never get down to the fact that you are an actor helping tell a story; a story that you tell with other people onstage and offstage. This book will show you you where you fit in to the ensemble and what you need to do so your character is true to life. Like Michael Shurtleff's "Audition," it takes a subjective art form, acting, and makes it objective. You get to view your work from outside yourself, and where to apply everything else you have learned. Not until now have I found anything that helped me do that. I have tried Inner Drives and am having a blast. You will be making choices that people will want to see and keep coming back to you for more. You will never read or act a script the same way again.
Plus, it's a damn good read about movies.
A Real Writers Journey.......2006-03-31
Wow. This is a great screenwriting book -- but it's so much more. Not only does it give you a better understanding of character, but it gives you a better understanding of human nature!
Pamela Jaye Smith has written one of the most intelligent, thought-provoking, and in-depth explanations and explorations on the key motivational centers of human beings. You won't ust learn how to build better characters, you'll discover how to develop your own character. No kidding. This is not just a manual for better writing -- it's a manual for better living!
Buy it. Devour it. Apply it. And read it again...and again...
Plenty of examples teamed with exercises to help writers structure characters.......2005-11-06
There are some basic principles to writing good characters into novels and dramas and with them the aspiring screenwriter or novelist can produce powerful, three-dimension figures. Inner Drives: How To Write & Create Characters Using The Eight Classic Centers Of Motivation surveys these principles from the world of mythology, using plenty of examples teamed with exercises to help writers structure characters, devise subplots, make logical connections and more. Chapters discuss 'inner drive centers', link art and writing to New Age concepts, and survey archetypes and classic examples.
An Insightful Book on New Techniques for Creating New Millennium Films.......2005-09-28
Pamela Jaye Smith's ground-breaking book is the first to connect the exciting field of subtle energy and esoteric anatomy with a character's motivation, style, and archetype. By showing how the chakra system affects behavior, she offers writers new pathways to creating authentic, multi-dimentional, and unforgettable personalities.
This is a must read for new-millennium screenwriters, breaking new ground in screenwriting. The inspired techniques for character development, described in "Inner Drives," go hand-in-hand with the stories we need to tell, to break through old paradigms and move into new possibilities in story telling.
This book is a treasure. I highly recommend "Inner Drives!"
Celeste Allegrea Adams
Author, "Keepers of the Dream"
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This collection brings new voices and new perspectives to the study of popular—and particularly rock—music. Focusing on a variety of artists and music forms, Rock Over the Edge asks what happens to rock criticism when rock is no longer a coherent concept. To work toward an answer, contributors investigate previously neglected genres and styles, such as “lo fi,” alternative country, and “rock en español,” while offering a fresh look at such familiar figures as Elvis Presley, the Beatles, and Kurt Cobain.
Bridging the disciplines of musicology and cultural studies, the collection has two primary goals: to seek out a language for talking about music culture and to look at the relationship of music to culture in general. The editors’ introduction provides a backward glance at recent rock criticism and also looks to the future of the rapidly expanding discipline of popular music studies. Taking seriously the implications of critical theory for the study of non-literary aesthetic endeavors, the volume also addresses such issues as the affective power of popular music and the psychic construction of fandom.
Rock Over the Edge will appeal to scholars and students in popular music studies and American Studies as well as general readers interested in popular music.
Contributors. Ian Balfour, Roger Beebe, Michael Coyle, Robert Fink, Denise Fulbrook, Tony Grajeda, Lawrence Grossberg, Trent Hill, Josh Kun, Jason Middleton, Lisa Ann Parks, Ben Saunders, John J. Sheinbaum, Gayle Wald, Warren Zanes
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Rock over the Edge: Transformations in Popular Music Culture. (Book Reviews: Popular Musics).(Book Review): An article from: Notes
Theo Cateforis
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Title: Rock over the Edge: Transformations in Popular Music Culture. (Book Reviews: Popular Musics).(Book Review)
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Europe's Digital Revolution: Broadcasting Revolution, the EU and the Nation State (European Public Policy)
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Examining the broadcasting policy of the European Union, this book analyses EU desire to become a more central actor in the regulation of the communications sector and the extent to which technological change and globalisation are aiding these desires. Using the latest thinking to emerge from the EU in response to digital broadcasting, this text explores the economic, political and cultural importance of broadcasting.
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Title: Age of faith?(Earthly Powers: The Clash of Religion and Politics in Europe, from the French Revolution to the Great War)(Book review)
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Title: Archives of the Scientific Revolution: The Formation and Exchange of Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Europe.(Review)
Author: Julian Martin
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This research analyzed the major metaphors the U.S. government created to define the post-September-11 world realities, including ''Second Front,'' ''Axis of Evil,'' ''Old Europe,'' ''Responsible Stakeholder,'' and ''Color Revolution.'' The metaphors are found to be rhetorically advocating and share the archetypal metaphor of ''democracy vs. tyranny'' and ''freedom vs. oppression.'' The metaphors had their origins in the U.S. national security strategies, and the images they created highlighted aspects of the moral and ideological considerations but hide certain aspects of the realpolitik motivations.
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This digital document is an article from Canada and the World Backgrounder, published by Taylor Publishing Consultants Ltd. on September 1, 1994. The length of the article is 694 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Casualties of the bloodless revolution. (economic problems follow fall of communism)(includes related information)(Eastern Europe - Comment)(Editorial)
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Canada and the World Backgrounder (Magazine/Journal)
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Changing colors: Ukraine's Orange Revolution.(EUROPE): An article from: Harvard International Review
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Title: Changing colors: Ukraine's Orange Revolution.(EUROPE)
Author: Adam Alexi Solomon
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Title: Democratic Revolutions: Asia and Eastern Europe.(Book review)
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Title: The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe.(Book Review)
Author: Amy Nelson Burnett
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Title: The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe.(Book review)
Author: Robert M. Kingdon
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Earthly Powers: The Clash of Religion and Politics in Europe from the French Revolution to the Great War.(Book review): An article from: Journal of Church and State
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Title: Earthly Powers: The Clash of Religion and Politics in Europe from the French Revolution to the Great War.(Book review)
Author: John B. Roney
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