Film Dialogue
1st Edition
Published on 25. June 2013
288 pages
978-0-231-85042-1 (ISBN)
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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.
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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.
Content
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
Index
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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