Foreign Dialects
A Manual for Actors, Directors, and Writers
2nd Edition
Published on 1. May 2014
384 pages
978-1-136-78450-7 (ISBN)
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 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.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
File size
21,34 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-136-78450-7 (9781136784507)
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Lewis Herman | Marquerite Shalett Herman
Foreign Dialects
A Manual for Actors, Directors, and Writers
Book
01/1997
2nd Edition
Routledge
€56.50
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Persons
Lewis Herman, Marguerite Shalett Herman
Content
Chapter 101 How to Use the Manual, Lewis Herman, Marguerite Shalett Herman; Chapter one Dialect Characterization, Lewis Herman, Marguerite Shalett Herman; Chapter two The Cockney Dialect, Lewis Herman, Marguerite Shalett Herman; Chapter three The British Dialect, Lewis Herman, Marguerite Shalett Herman; Chapter four The Irish Dialect, Lewis Herman, Marguerite Shalett Herman; Chapter five The Scottish Dialect, Lewis Herman, Marguerite Shalett Herman; Chapter six The German Dialect, Lewis Herman, Marguerite Shalett Herman; Chapter seven The French Dialect, Lewis Herman, Marguerite Shalett Herman; Chapter eight The Italian Dialect, Lewis Herman, Marguerite Shalett Herman; Chapter nine The Spanish Dialect, Lewis Herman, Marguerite Shalett Herman; Chapter ten The Japanese Dialect, Lewis Herman, Marguerite Shalett Herman; Chapter eleven The Chinese Dialect, Lewis Herman, Marguerite Shalett Herman; Chapter twelve Pidgin English, Lewis Herman, Marguerite Shalett Herman; Chapter thirteen The Hawaiian Dialect, Lewis Herman, Marguerite Shalett Herman; Chapter fourteen Beche Le Mar, Lewis Herman, Marguerite Shalett Herman; Chapter fifteen The Swedish Dialect, Lewis Herman, Marguerite Shalett Herman; Chapter sixteen The Russian Dialect, Lewis Herman, Marguerite Shalett Herman; Chapter seventeen Middle European Dialects, Lewis Herman, Marguerite Shalett Herman; Chapter eighteen The Polish Dialect, Lewis Herman, Marguerite Shalett Herman; Chapter nineteen The Greek Dialect, Lewis Herman, Marguerite Shalett Herman; Chapter twenty The Yiddish Dialect, Lewis Herman, Marguerite Shalett Herman;
