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But how do actors draw from their bodies and minds to turn their selves into art? What is the craft of being an authentic fake? More than a century ago, amid tsarist Russia''s crushing repression, one of the most talented actors ever, Konstantin Stanislavski, asked these very questions, reached deep into himself, and emerged with an answer. How his \"system\" remade itself into the Method and forever transformed American theater and film is an unlikely saga that has never before been fully told.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Now, critic and theater director Isaac Butler chronicles the history of the Method in a narrative that transports readers from Moscow to New York to Los Angeles, from \u003ci\u003eThe Seagull\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eA Streetcar Named Desire\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eRaging Bull\u003c\/i\u003e. 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He traces how a cohort of American mavericks--including Stella Adler, Lee Strasberg, and the storied Group Theatre--refashioned Stanislavski''s ideas for a Depression-plagued nation that had yet to find its place as an artistic powerhouse. The Group''s feuds and rivalries would, in turn, shape generations of actors who enabled Hollywood to become the global dream-factory it is today. Some of these performers the Method would uplift; others, it would destroy. 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