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Book SynopsisMedia Ventriloquism offers a new take on the many forms ventriloquism takes in 21st-century media, from Skype to video games, and the ways in which marginalized groups have used the act of separating the body from the voice to claim their agency and power.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Theorizing Media Ventriloquism Jaimie Baron, Jennifer Fleeger, and Shannon Wong Lerner Section I: Speaking in Another Voice Introduction: Reactivating the Vocal Uncanny Jaimie Baron Chapter 1: Echoes down the years: technologies of mediumship and immortality Alicia Puglionesi Chapter 2: Broadcasting the Diva of Dubbing: Marni Nixon, Local Television, and the Puppetry of Parenting Jennifer Fleeger Chapter 3: Queer from the Horse's Mouth: Francis the Talking Mule and Mr. Ed as Midcentury Man Whisperers Maria Pramaggiore Section II: Singing in Another Voice Introduction: Singing the Body Technovocalic Jaimie Baron Chapter 4: "Mike Fright": Racial Ventriloquism in the Hollywood Talkies Ryan Jay Friedman Chapter 5: The Black Queer/Trans Femme Representation of Beyoncé's Media Ventriloquisms and the National Voice Shannon Wong Lerner Chapter 6: Identity Politics and Vocal "Whitewashing" in Celebrity Lip Syncs Jennifer O'Meara Section III: Animating the Voice Introduction: Breathing in Mediated Spaces Shannon Wong Lerner Chapter 7: The Mills Brothers, Animators of the Unseen Stage Jacob Smith Chapter 8: Performing Fragility: Re-sounding the Gendered Hero in the Voice of Lara Croft Milena Droumeva Chapter 9: Double-Ventriloquism and Aegyo in Overwatch William Dunkel and Aaron Trammell Section IV: Politicizing the Voice Introduction: Of Technovocalic Presidents and Precedents Shannon Wong Lerner Chapter 10: Ventriloquizing Obama, or, the Ethics of Archival Ventriloquism Jaimie Baron Chapter 11: "You're the puppet": Presidential Ventriloquism, Vocal Technologies, and the Politics of Voice Sarah Kessler Epilogue Introduction: Media Ventriloquism in the Distant Present Jennifer Fleeger Epilogue: The Ventriloquism of Media: Communication as Delegation and Tele-action François Cooren, Lise Higham, and Boris H. J. M. Brummans
