Talkies, Road Movies and Chick Flicks : : Gender, Genre and Film Sound in American Cinema / / Heidi Wilkins.
Offers a detailed and innovative discussion of film sound and gender in mainstream US cinemaThe representation of gender in film remains an intensely debated topic, particularly in academic considerations of US mainstream cinema where it is often perceived as perpetuating rigid, binary views of gend...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Talking Back: Voice in Screwball Comedy -- 2 All That Jazz: The Diegetic Soundtrack in Melodrama -- 3 The Alienated Male: Silence and the Soundtrack in New Hollywood -- 4 Brothers in Arms: Masculinity and the Vietnam War Movie -- 5 Subversive Sound: Gender, Technology and the Science Fiction Blockbuster -- 6 Girl Talk: The Postmodern Female Voice in Chick Flicks -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Filmography and Other Sources -- Index |
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