Film Dialogue

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Edited by Jeff Jaeckle

Type

Essays

Subject

Theory

Keywords

theory, voice, genre, representation, authorship

Publishing date

2013

Publisher

Wallflower Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 288 pages
6 ½ x 9 ¾ inches (16.5 x 25 cm)

ISBN

978-0-231-16562-4

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Book Presentation:
Film Dialogue is the first anthology in film studies devoted to the topic of language in cinema, bringing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss the aesthetic, narrative, and ideological dimensions of film speech that have largely gone unappreciated and unheard. Consisting of thirteen essays divided into three sections: genre, auteur theory, and cultural representation, Film Dialogue revisits and reconfigures several of the most established topics in film studies in an effort to persuade readers that "spectators" are more accurately described as "audiences," that the gaze has its equal in eavesdropping, and that images are best understood and appreciated through their interactions with words. Including an introduction that outlines a methodology of film dialogue study and adopting an accessible prose style throughout, Film Dialogue is a welcome addition to ongoing debates about the place, value, and purpose of language in cinema.

About the Author:
Jeff Jaeckle holds a doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin and teaches at Portland Community College. His scholarship on film dialogue, aesthetics, and American cinema has appeared and is forthcoming in Film Quarterly, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, The Soundtrack, and the Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism.

See the publisher website: Wallflower Press