Foreign dialects : a manual for actors, directors, and writers / Lewis Herman and Marguerite Shalett Herman.
Foreign Dialects contains an extensive repertoire of dialects which 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 authentic...
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| Other title: | Manual of foreign dialects for radio, stage, and screen |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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1997.
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| Summary: | Foreign Dialects contains an extensive repertoire of dialects which 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 will give writers a sourcebook to guide them in the writing of fiction as well as radio, movie and television scripts. Thirty of the principal foreign dialects of the various national groups are provided, with character studies, speech peculiarities, and examples of the dialects in easy-to-read phonetic monologues.--From publisher description. |
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| Item Description: | "A Theatre Arts book." Originally published: Manual of foreign dialects for radio, stage, and screen. Chicago : Ziff-Davis Pub., 1943. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (376 pages) : illustrations, music. |
| ISBN: | 9781136784491 1136784497 9780203825136 0203825136 |