Into the Vortex
Subtitle: Female Voice and Paradox in Film
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: April 17, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780252030284
Subjects: Film theory & criticism; Women's studies; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Cinema/Film: Book; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Women's Studies - General; Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism; Voice in motion pictures; Voice-overs; Women in motion pictures
First sentence: Sound, and particularly female voice-off, renders acute a cinematic phenomenon of "blind images"-moments in which we are asked to lay down the gaze, to "see" through our hearing, moments that are often identified with a feminine subjectivity.