2023 Publication Award Honorable Mention, British Association for
Film, Television and Screen Studies An examination of the sound and
silence of women in digital media. 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.
General
Imprint: |
University Of Texas Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 2022 |
First published: |
2022 |
Authors: |
Jennifer O'Meara
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
320 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4773-2444-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
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LSN: |
1-4773-2444-5 |
Barcode: |
9781477324448 |
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