Author: Lewis Herman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136784497
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book 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.
Foreign Dialects
Author: Lewis Herman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136784497
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book 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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136784497
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book 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.
Foreign Dialects
Author: Lewis Herman
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780878300204
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780878300204
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
American Dialects
Author: Lewis Herman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113585694X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
This standard text, now in paperback for the first time-- the companion volume to Foreign Dialects-- AmericanDialects offers representative dialects of every major section of the United States. In each case, a general description and history of the dialect is given, followed by an analysis of vowel and consonant peculiarities, of its individual lilt and rhythm, and of its grammar variations. There are also lists of the idioms and idiomatic expressions that distinguish each dialect and exercises using them. American Dialects also includes musical inflection charts and diagrams showing the placement of lips, tongue, and breath.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113585694X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
This standard text, now in paperback for the first time-- the companion volume to Foreign Dialects-- AmericanDialects offers representative dialects of every major section of the United States. In each case, a general description and history of the dialect is given, followed by an analysis of vowel and consonant peculiarities, of its individual lilt and rhythm, and of its grammar variations. There are also lists of the idioms and idiomatic expressions that distinguish each dialect and exercises using them. American Dialects also includes musical inflection charts and diagrams showing the placement of lips, tongue, and breath.
Manual of Foreign Dialects for Radio, Stage and Screen
Author: Lewis Helmar Herman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Handbooks Prepared Under the Direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office
Author: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Accents and Dialects for Stage and Screen
Author: Paul Meier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Handbooks Prepared Under the Direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office: The Netherlands, no. 25-29
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic geography
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic geography
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Accents and Dialects for Stage and Screen
Author: Paul Meier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578004525
Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578004525
Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society
Author: British and Foreign Bible Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Vols. 1-64 include extracts from correspondence.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Vols. 1-64 include extracts from correspondence.
Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society
Author: British and Foreign Bible Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
Book Description
Vols. 1-64 include extracts from correspondence.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
Book Description
Vols. 1-64 include extracts from correspondence.