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 Dewey Decimal Number: 792.028 EAN: 9780878300488 ISBN: 0878300481 Label: Theatre Arts Books Manufacturer: Theatre Arts Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 438 Publication Date: 1979-04 Publisher: Theatre Arts Books Studio: Theatre Arts Books Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Most actors and directors have struggled with the problem of needing to imitate foreign dialects. Marguerite and Lewis Herman have created an essential tool for actors, directors and writers aiming toward the most authentic performances possible. Foreign Dialects contains an extensive repertoire of dialects that will assist the actor in the preparation for the most difficult foreign roles. Now in paperback, this classic text offers the director or producer a quick, convenient aid for correcting actors and evaluating applicants for authenticity and dialect ability. In addition, it guides those writing fiction as well as radio, movie, and television scripts. Thirty foreign dialects are provided, with character studies, speech peculiarities, and examples of the dialects in easy-to-read phonetic monologues--including Cockney, British, Irish, Scottish, French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Polish, Greek and Yiddish. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Great Stage ReferenceI was given a copy of this book 30+ years ago. Over the course of many moves I lost it. I was told it was out of print. Finding it has "made my day". This is a challenging book, and successful use will require lots of study to understand and use all of its resources, but if you do the work, the results will be outstanding. The author uses a musical scale to demonstrate the flow of a language. However you don't have to read music to follow the ups and downs of tone, and the spaces ... Read More Rating: - Good for Dipping IntoI bought this book as an amateur trying to coach dialects to actors in my local theatre. As a native English person, the information comes across as quite dated - it gives the impression that we brits still all walk around in London with bowler hats and rolled umbrellas calling each other "jolly good fellows" - but I found it fairly easy to pick out the bits and pieces that I needed to give the actors a general overview of various dialects, with enough detail to present a convincing voice to an American ... Read More Rating: - VER Y good bookI bought this book to help me build and polish a cockney accent for my first acting role as an adult. I was cast as Alfred Doolittle in a local dinner theatre's production of My Fair Lady. My accent got the most favorable comments from the audience and fellow actors alike, many of whom asked me for pointers on pronunciation. This book is great, and speaking cockney has become so easy and natural to me that I find myself slipping into it without realizing it immediately. The pronunciation tips and examples ... Read More Rating:  - Pretty useful for some, less for othersThis book is proof that some information is eternal. I found the sections on European dialects fairly useful. However, I did not find the Asian dialects to be all that accurate and found the background information given on them to be of a rather politically incorrect (not to mention rather inaccurate) nature. But considering that the book was compiled in the 1940's (so says the first printing date in the version I have), that isn't all that shocking. The main reason why I have a hard time giving this book ... Read More Rating: - Lahv it, gahv-nah!!As you maybe can tell from the title, I'm reading the first chapter on Cockney accent and driving everyone around me bloomin' bonkers. It's a well written, detailed book. The hints on dialects are so insightful...I've always liked to do accents but the fine-tuning ideas make you go, "Oh, yeah! That's right!" when you try them. There are almost too many details...the authors give you so many tidbits on doing certain dialects that you would be unintelligible if you tried them all. They warn you about this, ... Read More 
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