Women's voices in digital media : the sonic screen from film to memes / Jennifer O'Meara.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Meara, Jennifer, author.

Series:

Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voice-overs--Political aspects.

Voice-overs.

Voice in mass media--Social aspects.

Voice in mass media.

Voice in mass media--Political aspects.

Voice actors and actresses--Political aspects.

Voice actors and actresses.

Digital media--Technological innovations.

Digital media.

Women in mass media.

Sex role.

Gender identity in mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 272 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, [2022]

Summary:

In today’s digital era, women’s voices are heard everywhere—from smart home devices to social media platforms, virtual reality, podcasts, and even memes—but these new forms of communication are often accompanied by dated gender politics. In Women’s Voices in Digital Media, Jennifer O’Meara dives into new and well-established media formats to show how contemporary screen media and cultural practices police and fetishize women’s voices, but also provide exciting new ways to amplify and empower them. As she travels through the digital world, O’Meara discovers newly acknowledged—or newly erased—female voice actors from classic films on YouTube, meets the AI and digital avatars in Her and The Congress, and hears women’s voices being disembodied in new ways via podcasts and VR voice-overs. She engages with dialogue that is spreading with only the memory of a voice, looking at how popular media like Clueless and The Simpsons have been mined for feminist memes, and encounters vocal ventriloquism on RuPaul’s Drag Race that queers and valorizes the female voice. Through these detailed case studies, O’Meara argues that the digital proliferation of screens alters the reception of sounds as much as that of images, with substantial implications for women’s voices.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Proliferating Screens and a New Vocal Vortex

Chapter 1. Film Voices + Time: Excavating Vocal Histories on Digital Platforms

Chapter 2. The (Post)Human Voice and Feminized Machines in Anomalisa, The Congress, and Her

Chapter 3. The Expanded and Immersive Voice-Over

Chapter 4. Karina Longworth and the Remixing of Actresses’ Voices on the You Must Remember This Podcast

Chapter 5. Meme Girls versus Trump: The Silent Voices of Subtitled Screenshots

Chapter 6. RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Queered Remediation of Women’s Voices

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Filmography

Bibliography

$ Digital Artifacts

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4773-2445-3

9781477324455 (electronic book)

OCLC:

1290137320