| Description |
1 online resource (305 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: theorizing media ventriloquism / Jaimie Baron, Jennifer Fleeger, Shannon Wong Lerner -- Echoes down the years: thecnologies of mediumship and immortality / Alicia Puglionesi -- Broadcasting the diva of dubbing: Marni Nixon, local television, and the puppetry of parenting / Jennifer Fleeger -- Queer from the horse's mouth: Francis and Mr. Ed as mid-century man whisperers / Maria Pramaggiore -- "Mike fright": racial ventriloquism in the Hollywood talkies / Ryan Jay Friedman -- The Black queer/trans femme representation of Beyoncé's media ventriloquisms and the national voice / Shannon Wong Lerner -- Identity politics and vocal "whitewashing" in celebrity lip-syncs / Jennifer O'Meara -- The Mills Brothers, animators of the unseen stage / Jacob Smith -- Performing fragility: re-sounding the gendered hero in the voice of Lara Croft / Milena Droumeva -- Double-ventriloquism and aegyo in Overwatch / William Dunkel, Aaron Trammell -- Ventriloquizing Obama, or, the ethics of archival ventriloquism / Jaimie Baron -- "You're the puppet": presidential ventriloquism, vocal technologies, and the politics of voice / Sarah Kessler -- Epiloque: introduction: media ventriloquism in the distanced present / Jennifer Fleeger -- Epilogue: the venriloquism of media: communication a delegation and tele-action / François Cooren, Lise Higham, Boris H. J. M. Brummans |
| Summary |
"Media Ventriloquism repurposes the term "ventriloquism," which has traditionally referred to the act of throwing one's voice into an object that appears to speak, to reflect our complex vocal relationship with media technologies. Indeed, media technologies have the potential to separate voice from body and to constitute new relationships between them that could scarcely have been imagined before such technologies' invention and mass circulation. Radio, cinema, television, video games, digital technologies, and other media have each fundamentally transformed the relationship between voice and body in myriad and often unexpected ways. This volume interrogates the categorical definitions of voice and body as they operate within mediated environments, exploring the experiences of ventriloquism facilitated by media technologies and theorizing some of the political and ethical implications of separating bodies from voices. It builds in particular on Steven Connor's notion of the vocalic body, which he coined to identify an imaginary body that is created and maintained primarily through voice. In modifying Connor's term to theorize the "technovocalic body," the study focuses on cases in which the relationship between voice and body has been modified specifically by media technologies. The chapters in this collection demonstrate not only how particular bodies and voices have been (mis)represented through media ventriloquism but also how marginalized groups--racialized, gendered, queered, etc.--have used media ventriloquism to claim their agency and power"--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on June 29, 2021) |
| Subject |
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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Communication and culture.
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Voice in mass media
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Characters and characteristics in mass media
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Communication and culture
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Identity (Psychology) in mass media
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Baron, Jaimie, editor.
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Fleeger, Jennifer, editor.
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Lerner, Shannon Wong, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780197563649 |
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0197563643 |
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