Do women in classical Hollywood cinema ever truly speak for
themselves? In "Echo and Narcissus", Amy Lawrence examines eight
classic films to show how women's speech is repeatedly constructed
as a 'problem', an affront to male authority. This book expands
feminist studies of the representation of women in film, enabling
us to see individual films in new ways, and to ask new questions of
other films. Using "Sadie Thompson" (1928), "Blackmail" (1929),
"Rain" (1932), "The Spiral Staircase", "Sorry, Wrong Number",
"Notorious", "Sunset Boulevard" (1950) and "To Kill a Mockingbird"
(1962), Lawrence illustrates how women's voices are positioned
within narratives that require their submission to patriarchal
roles and how their attempts to speak provoke increasingly severe
repression. She also shows how women's natural ability to speak is
interrupted, made difficult, or conditioned to a suffocating degree
by sound technology itself. Telephones, phonographs, voice-overs,
and dubbing are fore grounded, called upon to silence women and to
restore the primacy of the image. Unlike the usage of 'voice' by
feminist and literary critics to discuss broad issues of authorship
and point of view, in film studies the physical voice itself is a
primary focus. "Echo and Narcissus" shows how assumptions about the
'deficiencies' of women's voices and speech are embedded in sound's
history, technology, uses and marketing. Moreover, the construction
of the woman's voice is inserted into the ideologically loaded
cinematic and narrative conventions governing the representation of
women in Hollywood film.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
