Overview
In Mismatched Women, author Jennifer Fleeger introduces readers to a lineage of women whose voices do not ""match"" their bodies by conventional expectations, from George du Maurier's literary Trilby to Metropolitan Opera singer Marion Talley, from Snow White and Sleeping Beauty to Kate Smith and Deanna Durbin. The book tells a new story about female representation by theorizing a figure regularly dismissed as an aberration. The mismatched woman is a stumbling block for both sound and feminist theory, argues Fleeger, because she has been synchronized yet seems to have been put together incorrectly, as if her body could not possibly house the voice that the camera insists belongs to her. Fleeger broadens the traditionally cinematic context of feminist film theory to account for literary, animated, televisual, and virtual influences. This approach bridges gaps between disciplinary frameworks, showing that studies of literature, film, media, opera, and popular music pose common questions about authenticity, vocal and visual realism, circulation, and reproduction. The book analyzes the importance of the mismatched female voice in historical debates over the emergence of new media and unravels the complexity of female representation in moments of technological change.
Full Product Details
Author: Jennifer Fleeger (Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Communication Studies, Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Communication Studies, Ursinus College, Phoenixville, PA)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.90cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 16.30cm
Weight: 0.558kg
ISBN: 9780199936892
ISBN 10: 0199936897
Pages: 260
Publication Date: 11 September 2014
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Mismatched Women sings with intelligence, originality, and depth. --Claudia Gorbman, co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics Fleeger complicates previous theories of the female voice, rethinking the 'match' between sound and body, technology and voice. Linking seemingly disparate singers and modes of performance - ranging from opera to animated film to radio and reality TV - Fleeger shows the way in which mismatched women challenge gender stereotypes and mechanisms of pity associated with having, or being, the wrong body. --Pamela Wojcik, Director of Gender Studies and Professor of Film at the University of Notre Dame
Author Information
Jennifer Fleeger is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communication Studies at Ursinus College where she teaches courses in the film studies program. Her first book, Sounding American: Hollywood, Opera, and Jazz, also appears in Oxford's Music/Media Series.
