Film Dialogue

Jeff Jaeckle holds a doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin and teaches at Portland Community College. His scholarship on film dialogue, aesthetics, and American cinema has appeared and is forthcoming in Film Quarterly, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, The Soundtrack, and the Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism.

Notes on Contributors Preface, by Sarah Kozloff Introduction: A Brief Primer for Film Dialogue Study, by Jeff Jaeckle Dialogue and Genre 1. The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo: Dialogue in Science Fiction Films, by Vivian Sobchack 2. Documenting Dialogue: Reshaping 'Reality' in Emile de Antonio's Point of Order, by Deborah A. Carmichael 3. Pronoun Troubles and Factual Conversations: Dialogue in Animated Films, by Paul Wells 4. Talking Teams: Dialogue and the Team Film Formula, by Jeremy Strong 5. You Talk Like a Character in a Book: Dialogue and Film Adaptation, by Thomas Leitch Dialogue Auteurs 6. Killing the Writer: Movie Dialogue Conventions and John Cassavetes, by Todd Berliner 7. The Film Dialogue of Howard Hawks, by Brian Wilson 8. Orson Welles' Trademark: Overlapping Film Dialogue, by Francois Thomas 9. On Misspeaking in the Films of Preston Sturges, by Jeff Jaeckle Dialogue and Cultural Representation 10. 'They Will Speak in Our Language': Indian Speech in Western Movies, by Edward Buscombe 11. From 'Me So Horny' to 'I'm So Ronery': Asian Images and Yellow Voices in American Cinema, by Hye Seung Chung 12. The Politics Speak: Performing Race From Sweetback to Foxy Brown, by Stephane Dunn 13. Male Sounds and Speech Affectations: Voicing Masculinity, by Donna Peberdy Index