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Contents: : Workshop 1. Muscularity of language: motion and rhythm -- Workshop 2. Under the text: subtext and the world of the play -- Workshop 3. Prose and verse texts: language and imagery reveal the character's inner landscape -- Workshop 4. The whole voice: its sounds and range -- Workshop 5. The voice preparation workshop.
Summary: : Cicely Berry, voice director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, leads well-known American and British actors in exercises focusing on the fundamentals of meter and rhythm in Shakespeare's verse.

Summary: : A pioneering exploration of form, meaning, theme and function in African American slang, illustrated with thousands of contextual examples.

Summary: : Covers the European accents most useful for the stage and screen: French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Yiddish. The most important features of each accent are detailed, enabling the actor to begin immediately to sound authentic, and Mr. Blumenfeld's unique approach makes the accents easily comprehensible. The incisive, succinct introduction to studying any accent is useful above and beyond the specific details of the accents covered here. The book provides a wealth of references to films where the reader can listen to authentic examples of the accents, and information as to what roles require the accents.

Contents: : Teach yourself accents: the elements -- Standard upper- and middle-class British accents -- London accents -- English provincial accents: the Midlands, Yorkshire -- Scottish accents -- Welsh accents -- Irish accents.

Summary: : "The representation of Indian Americans as foreign terrorists and as citizens who speak with an American accent comprise a major plot point in Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay. In American media, South Asians vacillate between being cast as racially foreign while simultaneously being praised as a model minority because they are highly educated, speak English, and can economically succeed in America. In American cinema and television, Shilpa Davé serves how contemporary images of South Asians build upon, modify, and at times diverge from previous stereotypes of Asian Americans as immigrants and model minorities"--

Contents: : How to use the workbook and reference materials -- Ugandan (Luganda) accent of English -- Kenyan (Dholuo) accent of English -- Zimbabwean (Shona) accent of English -- South African (Zulu) accent of English -- South African (Afrikaans) accent of English -- Rwandan (Kinyarwanda) accent of English -- DR Congolese (Lingala) accent of English -- Senegalese (Wolof) accent of English -- Nigerian (Igbo) accent of English -- Ghanaian (Akan: Twi and Fante) accent of English -- Liberian accent of English.

Instruction for actors in the reproduction of English as spoken by persons whose native language is Persian, with emphasis on creation of proper resonance, rhythm, pitch and stress traits, vowel pronunciation, and consonantal substitution.