ENGL 277 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Psychological Manipulation, Classical Hollywood Cinema
7 Feb 2018
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Significance material voice to the developing child: introduces us to the concept of the other. Voice over in classical hollywood is almost entirely male, especially sure for narrators who are not characters - voice of god , authority; documentary or trailers. Argues the role of the female voice represents a fantasy: cultural fantasies of the female voice. Unable to distinguish or produce meaningful sounds . Unthinkable, inexpressible, unrepresentable: strategies used against the female voice. Containment: female voice in confined within the diegesis, formal framing - telephone, voice contained within the phone. Silencing: diegetic: characters silencing her, film: cutting her through editing or sound. Infantilization: female voice is striped of its ability to make meaning, instead of that, wordless cry or unintelligible shouting - hysterical. Sorry, wrong number: radio dramas did exist in radio but for women - soap operas -advertisements, broadcast in the evening: both man and women audience, two leona.
