The book, edited by Arthur Bartow, artistic director of the Department of Drama at New York University, presents the most famous and effective techniques for teaching acting, thanks to which the world recognized such stars as Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, Dustin Hoffman, Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, and many others. Their authors are devoted followers and interpreters of the Stanislavsky system, famous American theater teachers Mikhail Chekhov, Stella Adler, Lee Strasberg, Sanford Meisner, who trained a galaxy of wonderful artists who glorified the American theater, became Hollywood legends and symbols of world cinema. The latest, postmodern methods of actor training are also offered. The book will be useful to everyone who is interested in acting as an art and as a profession: actors and those who dream of stage or screen, film scholars, theater scholars and simply lovers of theater and cinema.