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Mismatched Women: The Siren's Song Through the Machine

Mismatched Women: The Siren's Song Through the Machine

Fleeger, Jennifer

Paperback

Series: Oxford Music / Media

General SociologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0199936919
ISBN13: 9780199936915
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Sep 1 2014
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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.

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