Film and Media Arts: Acting
Dialect Recordings and Resources on the Web
Here's a link to dialect CDs and cassettes at Marriott Library.
The links below are for free resources on the web. If you have others you'd like to recommend, send me an email.
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Dictionary of American Regional EnglishPresents the full panoply of American regional words, phrases, and pronunciations. The digital edition features audio, interactive maps, and insights into the DARE Survey.
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Visual Accent & Dialect ArchiveAn archive of video clips from around the world, providing both aural and visual information about an accent or dialogue.
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The International Dialects of English Archive"A free, online archive of primary source dialect and accent recordings for the performing arts."
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Sounds Familiar?"This site captures and celebrates the diversity of spoken English in the second half of the twentieth century."
Auditions/Scenework
To find books highlighting audition techniques, audition pieces, and scenework, do a Subject search in the Usearch library catalog for one of the following, exact phrases:
Or, do a basic keyword search for the phrase "student actors"
Performance
To find a wide variety of books on acting theory and training, do a Subject search in the Usearch library catalog for one of the following, exact words:
Featured Acting Books:
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The Voiceover Book
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This is an e-book. You must be on campus or have a current uNID to access it. -
In Rehearsal: in the world, in the room and on your own
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General Collection, Level 2: PN2061.S56 2012 -
Acting As a Business
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Marriott Library, Level 2, General Collection: PN2055.O54 2014 -
The Routledge companion to actors' Shakespeare
General Collection, Level 2: PR3091 .R68 2012 -
Training for performance: a meta-disciplinary account
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General Collection, Level 2: PN2061.M38 2011
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