Women's Voices in Digital Media : : The Sonic Screen from Film to Memes / / Jennifer O'Meara.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: O'Meara, Jennifer,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 30 b&w photos

In today’s digital era, women’s voices are heard everywhere—from smart home devices to social media platforms, virtual reality, podcasts, and even memes—but these new forms of communication are often accompanied by dated gender politics. In Women’s Voices in Digital Media, Jennifer O’Meara dives into new and well-established media formats to show how contemporary screen media and cultural practices police and fetishize women’s voices, but also provide exciting new ways to amplify and empower them. As she travels through the digital world, O’Meara discovers newly acknowledged—or newly erased—female voice actors from classic films on YouTube, meets the AI and digital avatars in Her and The Congress, and hears women’s voices being disembodied in new ways via podcasts and VR voice-overs. She engages with dialogue that is spreading with only the memory of a voice, looking at how popular media like Clueless and The Simpsons have been mined for feminist memes, and encounters vocal ventriloquism on RuPaul’s Drag Race that queers and valorizes the female voice. Through these detailed case studies, O’Meara argues that the digital proliferation of screens alters the reception of sounds as much as that of images, with substantial implications for women’s voices.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Proliferating Screens and a New Vocal Vortex -- Chapter 1. Film Voices + Time: Excavating Vocal Histories on Digital Platforms -- Chapter 2. The (Post)Human Voice and Feminized Machines in Anomalisa, The Congress, and Her -- Chapter 3. The Expanded and Immersive Voice-Over -- Chapter 4. Karina Longworth and the Remixing of Actresses’ Voices on the You Must Remember This Podcast -- Chapter 5. Meme Girls versus Trump: The Silent Voices of Subtitled Screenshots -- Chapter 6. RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Queered Remediation of Women’s Voices -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Digital Artifacts -- Index