Locating the Voice in Film : Critical Approaches and Global Practices
- Submitting institution
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Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 35723068
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190261122.001.0001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780190261122
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Wright jointly co-edited this (120,000 word, 336pp.) book with Whittaker, co-wrote the Introduction (50% of 6,000 words) and also contributed a sole-authored chapter (6,400 words). The book is published by Oxford University Press and also appears on their Oxford Scholarship Online platform. Developing the original concept of the ‘mobile voice’, the book draws on recent work in performance, translation, and media sound. The collection covers a wide range of practices of translation, dubbing, and voice replacement essential to the global circulation of moving-image media. Locating the Voice in Film’s international/global coverage moves the study of film sound beyond its customary focus on Hollywood cinema and into Latin America, Asia and Africa amongst others. In addressing the place of the voice in film, the book nuances existing theoretical writing on the voice while applying these critical insights in a global context. Wright’s chapter is unusual in its focus on sound in Chilean national cinemas, including interviews with sound-artists for the first time in an article of this kind. It explores how the splitting of the voice is a means to examine the fissures, ruptures and divisions of the contemporary Chilean post-dictatorial landscape as well as to intimate how an ethics of listening might begin to overcome them. The work comprises 17 original chapters and an Introduction and brings together scholars from around the world (including world-renowned scholar Rey Chow), in what has been described by leading Sound Studies scholar Brandon LaBelle as presenting ‘a dynamic range of international perspectives’ in a ‘far-reaching anthology [which] broadens the discourse on voices’ role in cinematic experience […] lending critical weight to cultural agendas and poetic resistances’.
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- Non-English
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