Female Ventriloquism: Subverting the Silent and Talking Dolls of Western Cinema (the Synchronous Female Voice and Speech Performance)

Mireille Michel

Research output: ThesisDoctoral Thesis

Original languageEnglish
QualificationPh.D.
Awarding Institution
  • Royal Holloway, University of London
Supervisors/Advisors
  • Merck, Mandy, Supervisor
  • Merchant, Steven, Advisor, External person
Award date1 Jun 2018
Publication statusUnpublished - 2017

Keywords

  • speech performance
  • synchronous female voice
  • female ventriloquism
  • subversive female voice
  • parasite
  • parasitism
  • interference
  • noise
  • silence
  • ventriloquism
  • ventriloquist
  • vocal puppetry
  • talking dolls
  • real dolls
  • automata
  • simulation
  • masquerade
  • uncanny
  • Pygmalion
  • conflation of women and dolls in film

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