Reviews for Costume and Makeup

The average rating for Costume and Makeup based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-03-27 00:00:00 Lasse Mogensen I first stumbled on this around 1967. Intended for actors, it uses its own phonetic system which back then I found easier than IPA or something more current. I found the chapter on Australian and Cockney dialects especially interesting. Many of the accents are broad stage versions rather than attempts at serious linguistic/phonetic analysis, but it's a very good choice for beginning acting students. Readers/students should be aware that nothing gets outdated quicker than slang and considering the age of this book, those attempting British accents will sound more like David Niven than Harry Potter.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-02-14 00:00:00 Robert Blauvelt Learned my first dialect from this book: Irish for Playboy of the Western World.