Locating the voice in film : critical approaches and global practices / Tom Whittaker and Sarah Wright
- Published
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
- Additional Creators
- Whittaker, Tom and Wright, Sarah, 1969-
Access Online
- Oxford scholarship online: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.The Writing Voice in Cinema: A Preliminary Discussion / Rey Chow -- 2.Tito Schipa, Italian Film Sound, and Opera's Legacy on Screen / Jennifer Fleeger -- 3.The Voice of Argentina: Gender, Humour, and the National Soundscape in the Film Comedy of Nini Marshall / Christine Ehrick -- 4.Gender, Bawdiness, and Bodily Voices: Bombay Cinema's Audiovisual Contract and the `Ethnic' Woman / Pavitra Sundar -- 5.Double Doublage: Vocal Performance in the French-Dubbed Versions of Pixar's Toy Story and Cars / Colleen Montgomery -- 6.Anime's Star Voices: Voice Actor (Seiyu) Performance and Stardom in Japan / Rayna Denison -- 7.Woody's Spanish `Double': Vocal Performance, Ventriloquism, and the Sound of Dubbing / Tom Whittaker -- 8.Mad Max, Accented English, and Same-Language Dubbing / Tessa Dwyer -- 9.Anna Magnani: Voice, Body, Accent / Catherine O'Rawe -- 10.Carmen Miranda's Voice in Hollywood / Lisa Shaw -- 11.Feeling the Voice: Embodied Aural Encounters in Under the Bombs (Philippe Aractingi, 2007) / Nessa Johnston -- 12.Vocal Spaces and Oral Traces: Voice, Orality, and Ousmane Sembene's Early Postcolonial Critique / Alexander Fisher -- 13.Crude Extractions: The Voice in Iranian Cinema / Negar Mottadeheh -- 14.Spectral Voices and Resonant Bodies in Fernando Guzzoni's Dogflesh (Carne de perro, 2012) / Sarah Wright -- 15.Snowpiercer: Sound Designable Voices and the South Korean Global Film / Julian Stringer -- 16.Performing Through Space: Overflow, Displacement, and the Voice in Keep Your Right Up: A Place on Earth (Jean-Luc Godard, 1987) / Albertine Fox -- 17.A Dark and Shiny Place: The Disembodied Female Voice, Irigarayan Subjectivity, and the Political Erotics of Hearing Her (Spike Jonze, 2013) / Davina Quinlivan.
- Summary
- This work locates the voice in cinema in different national and transnational contexts, to explore how the critical approaches to the voice as well as the practices of sound design, technologies and even reception are often grounded in cultural specificity, to present readings which challenge traditional theories of the voice in film.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780190261153 (ebook)
- Audience Notes
- Specialized.
- Note
- Previously issued in print: 2017.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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