Media Ventriloquism

Introduction: Theorizing Media Ventriloquism Jaimie Baron, Jennifer Fleeger, and Shannon Wong Lerner Section I: Speaking in Another Voice Introduction: Reactivating the Vocal Uncanny Jaimie Baron Chapter 1: Echoes down the years: technologies of mediumship and immortality Alicia Puglionesi Chapter 2: Broadcasting the Diva of Dubbing: Marni Nixon, Local Television, and the Puppetry of Parenting Jennifer Fleeger Chapter 3: Queer from the Horse's Mouth: Francis the Talking Mule and Mr. Ed as Midcentury Man Whisperers Maria Pramaggiore Section II: Singing in Another Voice Introduction: Singing the Body Technovocalic Jaimie Baron Chapter 4: "Mike Fright": Racial Ventriloquism in the Hollywood Talkies Ryan Jay Friedman Chapter 5: The Black Queer/Trans Femme Representation of Beyoncé's Media Ventriloquisms and the National Voice Shannon Wong Lerner Chapter 6: Identity Politics and Vocal "Whitewashing" in Celebrity Lip Syncs Jennifer O'Meara Section III: Animating the Voice Introduction: Breathing in Mediated Spaces Shannon Wong Lerner Chapter 7: The Mills Brothers, Animators of the Unseen Stage Jacob Smith Chapter 8: Performing Fragility: Re-sounding the Gendered Hero in the Voice of Lara Croft Milena Droumeva Chapter 9: Double-Ventriloquism and Aegyo in Overwatch William Dunkel and Aaron Trammell Section IV: Politicizing the Voice Introduction: Of Technovocalic Presidents and Precedents Shannon Wong Lerner Chapter 10: Ventriloquizing Obama, or, the Ethics of Archival Ventriloquism Jaimie Baron Chapter 11: "You're the puppet": Presidential Ventriloquism, Vocal Technologies, and the Politics of Voice Sarah Kessler Epilogue Introduction: Media Ventriloquism in the Distant Present Jennifer Fleeger Epilogue: The Ventriloquism of Media: Communication as Delegation and Tele-action François Cooren, Lise Higham, and Boris H. J. M. Brummans