contents

notes on contributors

Preface

SARAH KOZLOFF

Introduction: A Brief Primer for Film Dialogue Study

JEFF JAECKLE

DIALOGUE AND GENRE

1     The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo: Dialogue in Science Fiction Films

VIVIAN SOBCHACK

2     Documenting Dialogue: Reshaping ‘Reality’ in Emile de Antonio’s Point of Order

DEBORAH A. CARMICHAEL

3     Pronoun Troubles and Factual Conversations: Dialogue in Animated Films

PAUL WELLS

4     Talking Teams: Dialogue and the Team Film Formula

JEREMY STRONG

5     You Talk Like a Character in a Book: Dialogue and Film Adaptation

THOMAS LEITCH

DIALOGUE AUTEURS

6     Killing the Writer: Movie Dialogue Conventions and John Cassavetes

TODD BERLINER

7     The Film Dialogue of Howard Hawks

BRIAN WILSON

8     Orson Welles’ Trademark: Overlapping Film Dialogue

FRANÇOIS THOMAS

9     On Misspeaking in the Films of Preston Sturges

JEFF JAECKLE

DIALOGUE AND CULTURAL REPRESENTATION

10   ‘They Will Speak in Our Language’: Indian Speech in Western Movies

EDWARD BUSCOMBE

11   From ‘Me So Horny’ to ‘I’m So Ronery’: Asian Images and Yellow Voices in American Cinema

HYE SEUNG CHUNG

12   The Politics Speak: Performing Race From Sweetback to Foxy Brown

STEPHANE DUNN

13   Male Sounds and Speech Affectations: Voicing Masculinity

DONNA PEBERDY

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