ISBN:
9780197563649
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 online resource (305 pages)
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302.2
Schlagwort(e):
Identity (Psychology) in mass media
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Voice in mass media
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Characters and characteristics in mass media
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Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
Media Ventriloquism offers a new take on the many forms ventriloquism takes in 21st-century media, from Skype to video games, and the ways in which marginalized groups have used the act of separating the body from the voice to claim their agency and power.
Kurzfassung:
Cover -- Media Ventriloquism -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Theorizing Media Ventriloquism -- Section I: Speaking in Another Voice -- Introduction: Reactivating the Vocal Uncanny -- 1. Echoes Down the Years: Technologies of Mediumship and Immortality -- 2. Broadcasting the Diva of Dubbing: Marni Nixon, Local Television, and the Puppetry of Parenting -- 3. Queer from the Horse's Mouth: Francis and Mr. Ed as Mid-century Man Whisperers -- Section II: Singing in Another Voice -- Introduction: Singing the Body Technovocalic -- 4. "Mike Fright": Racial Ventriloquism in the Hollywood Talkies -- 5. The Black Queer/Trans Femme Representation of Beyoncé's Media Ventriloquisms and the National Voice -- 6. Identity Politics and Vocal "Whitewashing" in Celebrity Lip-Syncs -- Section III: Animating the Voice -- Introduction: Breathing in Mediated Spaces -- 7. The Mills Brothers, Animators of the Unseen Stage -- 8. Performing Fragility: Re-sounding the Gendered Hero in the Voice of Lara Croft -- 9. Double-Ventriloquism and Aegyo in Overwatch -- Section IV: Politicizing the Voice -- Introduction: Of Technovocalic Presidents and Precedents -- 10. Ventriloquizing Obama, or, the Ethics of Archival Ventriloquism -- 11. "You're the Puppet": Presidential Ventriloquism, Vocal Technologies, and the Politics of Voice -- Epilogue: Introduction: Media Ventriloquism in the Distanced Present -- Epilogue: The Ventriloquism of Media: Communication as Delegation and Tele-action -- Bibliography -- Index.
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