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Zusatztext The voice receives the attention it deserves in Locating the Voice in Film, a most welcome addition to the literature on film and media sound. Drawing on recent work in performance, translation, and media sound, this fine collection covers a wide array of practices of translation, dubbing, and voice replacement essential to the global circulation of moving-image media. Besides the novel emphasis on the voice, Locating the Voice in Films international/global coverage helps move the study of film sound beyond its customary focus on Hollywood cinema. Informationen zum Autor Tom Whittaker is Senior Lecturer in Film and Spanish Cultural Studies at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of The Films of Elías Querejeta: A Producer of Landscapes (2011) and co-editor of Performance and Spanish Film (2016).; Sarah Wright is Reader in Hispanic Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of The Trickster-Function in the Theatre of García Lorca (2000), Tales of Seduction: The Figure of Don Juan in Spanish Culture (2007) and The Child in Spanish Cinema (2013). Klappentext This book locates the voice in cinema in different national and transnational contexts, to explore how the critical approaches to the voice as well as the practices of sound design, technologies and even reception are often grounded in cultural specificity, to present readings which challenge traditional theories of the voice in film. Zusammenfassung This book locates the voice in cinema in different national and transnational contexts, to explore how the critical approaches to the voice as well as the practices of sound design, technologies and even reception are often grounded in cultural specificity, to present readings which challenge traditional theories of the voice in film.
