Film dialogue / edited by Jeff Jaeckle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jaeckle, Jeff, editor.

Kozloff, Sarah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dialogue in motion pictures.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xv, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Wallflower, [2013]

Summary:

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 insightful essays that divide into sections on genre, auteur theory and cultural representation, this collection revisits and reconfigures several of the most established topics in film studies in an effort to persuade readers that 'spectators' are also 'audiences', that looking has its equal in listening, and that images are best understood and appreciated through their interactions with words. With an Introduction that outlines a methodology of film dialogue study, Film Dialogue is a welcome addition to ongoing debates about the place, value, and purpose of language in cinema. Book jacket.

Contents:

Preface / Sarah Kozloff

Introduction: A brief primer for film dialogue study / Jeff Jaeckle

The leaden echo and the golden echo: dialogue in science fiction films / Vivian Sobchack

Documenting dialogue: reshaping 'reality' in Emile de Antonio's Point of order / Deborah A. Carmichael

Pronoun troubles and factual conversations: dialogue in animated films / Paul Wells

Talking teams: dialogue and the team film formula / Jeremy Strong

You talk like a character in a book: dialogue and film adaptation / Thomas Leitch

Killing the writer: movie dialogue conventions and John Cassavetes / Todd Berliner

The film dialogue of Howard Hawks / Brian Wilson

Orson Welles' trademark: overlapping film dialogue / Francois Thomas

On misspeaking in the films of Preston Sturges / Jeff Jaeckle

'They will speak in our language' : Indian speech in western movies / Edward Buscombe

From 'Me so horny' to 'I'm so ronery': asian images and yellow voices in american cinema / Hye Seung Chung

The politics speak: performing race from Sweetback to Foxy Brown / Stephane Dunn

Male sounds and speech affectations: voicing masculinity / Donna Peberdy.

Notes:

"A Wallflower Press Book, Published by Columbia University Press" -- Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0231165633

0231165625

9780231165624

9780231165631

OCLC:

824657522