Vocal projections : voices in documentary

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Pramaggiore, Maria
• Roe, Annabelle Honess

Publisher

New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

Language

English

ISBN

9781501331251

Series

Subject(s)

• DOCUMENTARY FILMS--HISTORY AND CRITISM
• SOUND IN MOTION PICTURES

Notes

. Bibliography: p. 284-285. Index: p. 290-306

Abstract

Vocal Projections: Voices in Documentary examines a previously neglected topic in the field of documentary studies: the political, aesthetic, and affective functions that voices assume. On topics ranging from the celebrity voice over to ventriloquism, from rockumentary screams to feminist vocal politics, these essays demonstrate myriad ways in which voices make documentary meaning beyond their expository, evidentiary and authenticating functions.

The international range of contributors offers an innovative approach to the issues relating to voices in documentary. While taking account of the existing paradigm in documentary studies pioneered by Bill Nichols, in which voice is equated with political rhetoric and subjective representation, the contributors move into new territory, addressing current and emerging research in voice, sound, music and posthumanist studies.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

viii, 306 p.

Dimension

24 cm.

Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

Playing God: film stars as documentary narrators / Annabelle Honess Roe --
Auditing the call centre voice: accented speech and listening in Sonali Gulati's Nalini by day, Nancy by night (2005) / Pooja Rangan --
The fundamental lie: lip sync, dubbing, ventriloquism and the othering of voice in documentary media / Patrik Sjöberg --
Hearing voices in singer-songwriter music documentaries / Maria Pramaggiore --
"The voice" and sound in indian documentary film: listen to Surabhi Sharma's Bidesia in Bambai (2013) / Deborah Matzner --
Hum, buzz, gurgle: ecological soundscapes in poetic ecodocs / Shilyh Warren --
Literally documenting her voice: Vallie Export's vocal-visual experiments with screen media / Helen Hughes --
The voice of mockumentary / Sarah Kessler --
Fabulous thinking, chimeric voice: Kathy High's Lily does Derrida: a dog's video (2010) / Brenda Hollweg --
Animating voices, onscreen and off, in Kathleen Shannon's working mothers (1974-5) / Jean Walton --
The voice in documentary sound design: a digital revolution / Chris Cagle --
Kazuhiro Soda's migrant voices / Luke Robinson --
Vocal hierarchy in documentary / James Nicholson --
Crime documentary's confessing voice / Kristen Fuhs --
Sounds of disillusionment and discord: when Pasolini and Sontag visited Israel / Ohad Landesman --
Beyond words: speech, ethical time and the politics of the local in Nicholas Philibert's Retour en Normandie (2007) / Rhiannon Harries.

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