Film Dialogue (eBook)

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 ContributorsPreface, by Sarah KozloffIntroduction: A Brief Primer for Film Dialogue Study, by Jeff JaeckleDialogue and Genre1. The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo: Dialogue in Science Fiction Films, by Vivian Sobchack2. Documenting Dialogue: Reshaping 'Reality' in Emile de Antonio's Point of Order, by Deborah A. Carmichael3. Pronoun Troubles and Factual Conversations: Dialogue in Animated Films, by Paul Wells4. Talking Teams: Dialogue and the Team Film Formula, by Jeremy Strong5. You Talk Like a Character in a Book: Dialogue and Film Adaptation, by Thomas LeitchDialogue Auteurs6. Killing the Writer: Movie Dialogue Conventions and John Cassavetes, by Todd Berliner7. The Film Dialogue of Howard Hawks, by Brian Wilson8. Orson Welles' Trademark: Overlapping Film Dialogue, by François Thomas9. On Misspeaking in the Films of Preston Sturges, by Jeff JaeckleDialogue and Cultural Representation10. 'They Will Speak in Our Language': Indian Speech in Western Movies, by Edward Buscombe11. From 'Me So Horny' to 'I'm So Ronery': Asian Images and Yellow Voices in American Cinema, by Hye Seung Chung12. The Politics Speak: Performing Race From Sweetback to Foxy Brown, by Stephane Dunn13. Male Sounds and Speech Affectations: Voicing Masculinity, by Donna PeberdyIndex