Notes on Contributors
Preface, by Sarah Kozloff
Introduction: A Brief Primer for Film Dialogue Study, by Jeff Jaeckle
Dialogue and Genre
1. The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo: Dialogue in Science Fiction Films, by Vivian Sobchack
2. Documenting Dialogue: Reshaping 'Reality' in Emile de Antonio's Point of Order, by Deborah A. Carmichael
3. Pronoun Troubles and Factual Conversations: Dialogue in Animated Films, by Paul Wells
4. Talking Teams: Dialogue and the Team Film Formula, by Jeremy Strong
5. You Talk Like a Character in a Book: Dialogue and Film Adaptation, by Thomas Leitch
Dialogue Auteurs
6. Killing the Writer: Movie Dialogue Conventions and John Cassavetes, by Todd Berliner
7. The Film Dialogue of Howard Hawks, by Brian Wilson
8. Orson Welles' Trademark: Overlapping Film Dialogue, by François Thomas
9. On Misspeaking in the Films of Preston Sturges, by Jeff Jaeckle
Dialogue and Cultural Representation
10. 'They Will Speak in Our Language': Indian Speech in Western Movies, by Edward Buscombe
11. From 'Me So Horny' to 'I'm So Ronery': Asian Images and Yellow Voices in American Cinema, by Hye Seung Chung
12. The Politics Speak: Performing Race From Sweetback to Foxy Brown, by Stephane Dunn
13. Male Sounds and Speech Affectations: Voicing Masculinity, by Donna Peberdy
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