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An acting technique in which the performer summons up the memory of a particular emotional experience and transfers it to the emotional life of the character he or she portrays.
Even though the Method of Physical Acting replaced Emotion Memory in Stanislavski's system, Emotion Memory had a lasting impact in the United States. Different interpretations of Emotion Memory have prevailed in America and have become what is known as the American "Method." The method came into the United States through Russian émigrés, or migrators. Two of these migrators were Richard Boleslavski and Maria Ouspenskaya, these people studied with Stanislavkski. Emotion Memory has become the basis of American "Method" Acting.
It all began in 1911, when Stanislavski met with various intellectuals and certain scientists in order to discover all facets of a person's inner life and was influenced by the works of a French psychologist named Theodule Armand Ribot (1839-1916), who coined the term "Affective Memory".
http://homepage.smc.edu/sawoski_perviz/Stanislavski.pdf
The Stanislavski System PDF File)
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http://www.filmplus.org/thr/dic2.html
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Definition
Emotion memory is used to help actors show real emotion when acting opposed to fake, or over exaggerated emotions. emotion memory makes the performance more believable and more compelling.
within the last five years of Stanislavski's life, his technique underwent a radical change. he felt the system was losing its integrity and needed to be re-established. Emotion memory was being felt too exhausting for actors, producing negative results like tension and hysteria. these emotions were difficult to force out, instead they needed to be lured. Stanislavski began to use the body as a means for invoking these memories, where different actions on stage could cause you to feel the same way as remembering a memory could. This led him to develop the "Method of Physical Acting."