Film Dialogue

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-231-16562-4
Verlag: Wallflower Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

Film Dialogue is the first anthology in film studies devoted to the topic of language in cinema, bringing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss the aesthetic, narrative, and ideological dimensions of film speech that have largely gone unappreciated and unheard. Consisting of thirteen essays divided into three sections: genre, auteur theory, and cultural representation, Film Dialogue revisits and reconfigures several of the most established topics in film studies in an effort to persuade readers that "spectators" are more accurately described as "audiences," that the gaze has its equal in eavesdropping, and that images are best understood and appreciated through their interactions with words. Including an introduction that outlines a methodology of film dialogue study and adopting an accessible prose style throughout, Film Dialogue is a welcome addition to ongoing debates about the place, value, and purpose of language in cinema.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jaeckle, Jeff

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on ContributorsPreface, by Sarah KozloffIntroduction: A Brief Primer for Film Dialogue Study, by Jeff JaeckleDialogue and Genre1. The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo: Dialogue in Science Fiction Films, by Vivian Sobchack2. Documenting Dialogue: Reshaping 'Reality' in Emile de Antonio's Point of Order, by Deborah A. Carmichael3. Pronoun Troubles and Factual Conversations: Dialogue in Animated Films, by Paul Wells4. Talking Teams: Dialogue and the Team Film Formula, by Jeremy Strong5. You Talk Like a Character in a Book: Dialogue and Film Adaptation, by Thomas LeitchDialogue Auteurs6. Killing the Writer: Movie Dialogue Conventions and John Cassavetes, by Todd Berliner7. The Film Dialogue of Howard Hawks, by Brian Wilson8. Orson Welles' Trademark: Overlapping Film Dialogue, by François Thomas9. On Misspeaking in the Films of Preston Sturges, by Jeff JaeckleDialogue and Cultural Representation10. 'They Will Speak in Our Language': Indian Speech in Western Movies, by Edward Buscombe11. From 'Me So Horny' to 'I'm So Ronery': Asian Images and Yellow Voices in American Cinema, by Hye Seung Chung12. The Politics Speak: Performing Race From Sweetback to Foxy Brown, by Stephane Dunn13. Male Sounds and Speech Affectations: Voicing Masculinity, by Donna PeberdyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Jeff Jaeckle holds a doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin and teaches at Portland Community College. His scholarship on film dialogue, aesthetics, and American cinema has appeared and is forthcoming in Film Quarterly, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, The Soundtrack, and the Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism.