Engaging Dialogue : Cinematic Verbalism in American Independent Cinema /
O'Meara, Jennifer
Engaging Dialogue : Cinematic Verbalism in American Independent Cinema / Jennifer O'Meara. - 1 online resource (232 p.) - Traditions in American Cinema : TAC .
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 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 -- FILMOGRAPHY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Explores how American directors engage audiences through dialogue that is creatively designed and executedProvides a framework for analysing dialogue design and execution that can be readily applied to other films and filmmakersHighlights how speech can be central to cinema without overshadowing its medium-specific componentsDevelops new connections between film dialogue, reception studies, independent cinema and auteur studiesExamining 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.Read a sample chapter (pdf)"
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781474420624 9781474420631
10.1515/9781474420631 doi
Dialogue in motion pictures.
Independent films--History and criticism--United States.
Independent films--History and criticism.--United States
Film, Media & Cultural Studies.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production.
791.43/6
Engaging Dialogue : Cinematic Verbalism in American Independent Cinema / Jennifer O'Meara. - 1 online resource (232 p.) - Traditions in American Cinema : TAC .
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 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 -- FILMOGRAPHY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Explores how American directors engage audiences through dialogue that is creatively designed and executedProvides a framework for analysing dialogue design and execution that can be readily applied to other films and filmmakersHighlights how speech can be central to cinema without overshadowing its medium-specific componentsDevelops new connections between film dialogue, reception studies, independent cinema and auteur studiesExamining 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.Read a sample chapter (pdf)"
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781474420624 9781474420631
10.1515/9781474420631 doi
Dialogue in motion pictures.
Independent films--History and criticism--United States.
Independent films--History and criticism.--United States
Film, Media & Cultural Studies.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production.
791.43/6