Engaging Dialogue
Cinematic Verbalism in American Independent Cinema
Seiten
2019
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474431767 (ISBN)
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474431767 (ISBN)
O’Meara highlights how speech can be central to cinema without overshadowing its medium-specific components, and demonstrates how indie dialogue can instead hinge on an idea of cinematic verbalism.
Examining the centrality of dialogue to American independent cinema, Jennifer O’Meara argues that it is impossible to separate small budgets from the old adage that ‘talk is cheap’. Focusing on the 1980s until the present, particularly on the films by writer-directors like Jim Jarmusch, Noah Baumbach and Richard Linklater, this book demonstrates dialogue’s ability to engage audiences and bind together the narrative, aesthetic and performative elements of selected cinema. Questioning the association of dialogue-centred films with the ‘literary’ and the ‘un-cinematic’, O’Meara highlights how speech in independent cinema can instead hinge on what is termed ‘cinematic verbalism’: when dialogue is designed and executed in complex, medium-specific ways.
Examining the centrality of dialogue to American independent cinema, Jennifer O’Meara argues that it is impossible to separate small budgets from the old adage that ‘talk is cheap’. Focusing on the 1980s until the present, particularly on the films by writer-directors like Jim Jarmusch, Noah Baumbach and Richard Linklater, this book demonstrates dialogue’s ability to engage audiences and bind together the narrative, aesthetic and performative elements of selected cinema. Questioning the association of dialogue-centred films with the ‘literary’ and the ‘un-cinematic’, O’Meara highlights how speech in independent cinema can instead hinge on what is termed ‘cinematic verbalism’: when dialogue is designed and executed in complex, medium-specific ways.
Dr Jennifer O’Meara is an Associate Professor of Film Studies at Trinity College Dublin. She is the author of Women's Voices in Digital Media (2022, University of Texas Press) and Engaging Dialogue (2018, EUP).
Acknowledgements
Table of contents
Introduction
1. Measuring Engaging Dialogue
2. Verbal-Visual Style and Words Visualised
3. The Integrated Soundtrack and Lyrical Speech
4. Dialogue and Character Construction
5. Embodying Dialogue: Rich Voices, Expressive Mouths and Gesticulation
6. Gendered Verbal Dynamics: Sensitive Men and Explicit Women
7. Adapting Dialogue and Authorial Double Voicing
Conclusion: Verbal Extremes and Excess
Bibliography
Filmography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.01.2020 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Traditions in American Cinema |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 359 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781474431767 / 9781474431767 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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