Into the vortex : female voice and paradox in film / Britta Sjogren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sjogren, Britta H., 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in motion pictures.

Voice in motion pictures.

Voice-overs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Into the Vortex challenges and rethinks feminist film theory's brilliant but often pessimistic reflections on the workings of sound and voice in film. Including close readings of major film theorists such as Kaja Silverman and Mary Ann Doane, Britta H. Sjogren offers an alternative to image-centered scenarios that dominate feminist film theory's critique of the representation of sexual difference. Sjogren focuses on a rash of 1940s Hollywood films in which the female voice bears a marked formal presence to demonstrate the ways that the feminine is expressed and difference is sustained. She argues that these films capitalize on particular particular psychoanalytic, narratological and discursive contradictions to bring out and express difference, rather than to contain or close it down. Exploring the vigorous dynamic engendered by contradiction and paradox, Sjogren charts a way out of the pessimistic, monolithic view of patriarchy and cinema's representation of women's voices.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue: Voilce, Vortexes, and Dialectics

1. A Metapsychology of the Voice-off

2. Point of View and Paradox

3. Discourse, Enunciation, and Contradiction

Epilogue: Passionate Blindness

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-239) and index.

ISBN:

9786613044082

9781283044080

1283044080

9780252092411

0252092414

OCLC:

841171405