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Accents: A Manual for Actors- Revised and Expanded Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: Robert Blumenfeld
Publisher: Limelight Editions
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 48914
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 3
Pages: 424
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.2
ISBN: 087910967X
Dewey Decimal Number: 792.028
UPC: 073999448740
EAN: 9780879109677
ASIN: 087910967X
Publication Date: August 1, 2004
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Product Description
This practical reference manual, with its precise, authentic instructions on how to speak in more than 100 dialects, has established itself as the most useful and comprehensive guide to accents available, now increased by a third in this revised printing. As before, the accents range from regional U.S. and British dialects to European accents that include, among others, the Germanic, Slavic and Romance Languages. Completing his around-the-world journey, the author then covers the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Includes two CDs.
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 Great October 8, 2008
This is very complete. There is more here than I will ever use. The CD's that come with it are well produced and a wealth of information. Highly recommended for radio, TV, movies, theater, and real-life.
 Accents- A manual for Actors September 2, 2008
Blackstone sent me a great book in great condition, as promised. I did not realize when they said without a CD, that it meant the book originally had one. I thought they meant it was published without a corresponding CD to listen to the dialects. I would give Blackstone 5 Stars for being expeditious and having the book in excellent condition; and 3 stars that I noted because they really should have been clearer about the difficulty in NOT having the CD that was made for the book.
I would have spent more for a book with a CD so I could hear the dialects, this way it is really too difficult.
 Laughable July 16, 2008
I tend to judge the value of a book on accents by listening to an example of the way I, as an Australian, supposedly speak. From this I tend to gauge the accuracy of the other accents.
Robert Blumenfeld has obviously NEVER heard an Australian speak. There may be, in some remote corner of the country, someone who speaks as he describes - a cross between South African and New Zealander- but I have never encounterd them. On this basis, I would avoid this work like the plague for fear of being laughed off the stage, or screen - or out of the audition room
 Not as comprehensive as it looks April 1, 2008
At first glance at the table of contents, it looks like this book practically covers it all, i.e. all the English language accents in the world! While the book and CD handle major European accents decently, I have to say that the Asian/ middle eastern accents are broad caricatures at best, racist at worst. I had to learn an Indonesian accent for a role and thought this book and CDs would be a great investment. The Indonesian accent was grossly approximated by Blumenfeld's deep, effete voice as a Germanic/Orientalized pidgin dialect. After further, better research on the real language and culture, I can best surmise he was attempting a white, DUTCH Indonesian accent. Perusing the other Asian accents, I saw a cursory, pidgin attempt. I haven't looked at the other accents of other continents (on the CDs) as I got tired of listening, but while this book seems to have it all, a student of theatre/acting/dialects is far best served 1.) learning the actual source language (for rhythm and structure) and history of the people(for the all important CONTEXT), 2.) contacting and interviewing people from that country through local universities/libraries/community newspapers, 3.) watching documentaries from the source country and visiting the Speech Accent Archive online.
Accents: A Manual for Actors August 28, 2007
Useful and valuable - for actors and theatre groups. Robert Blumenfeld really knows his stuff. Examples on the CD were great, but unfortunately short.
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