"Film Dialogue is the first anthology in film studies devoted to the topic of language in cinema, bringing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss the aesthetic, narrative and ideological dimensions of film speech that have largely gone unappreciated and unheard. Consisting of insightful essays that divide into sections on genre, auteur theory and cultural representation, this collection revisits and reconfigures several of the most established topics in film studies in an effort to persuade readers that 'spectators' are also 'audiences,' that looking has its equal in listening, and that images are best understood and appreciated through their interactions with words. With an introduction that outlines a methodology of film dialogue study, Film Dialogue is a welcome addition to ongoing debates about the place, value and purpose of language in cinema."-- Page [4] of cover.

Preface / Sarah Kozloff -- Introduction : a brief primer for film dialogue study / Jeff Jaeckle -- [Part I.] Dialogue and genre. The leaden echo and the golden echo : dialogue in science fiction films / Vivian Sobchack -- Documenting dialogue : reshaping 'reality' in Emile de Antonio's Point of order / Deborah A. Carmichael -- Pronoun troubles and factual conversations : dialogue in animated films / Paul Wells -- Talking teams : dialogue and the team film formula / Jeremy Strong -- You talk like a character in a book : dialogue and film adaptation / Thomas Leitch -- [Part II.] Dialogue auteurs. Killing the writer : movie dialogue conventions and John Cassavetes / Todd Berliner -- The film dialogue of Howard Hawks / Brian Wilson -- Orson Welles' trademark : overlapping film dialogue / François Thomas -- On misspeaking in the films of Preston Sturges / Jeff Jaeckle -- [Part III.] Dialogue and cultural representation. 'They will speak in our language' : Indian speech in Western movies / Edward Buscombe -- From 'Me so horny' to 'I'm so ronery' : Asian images and yellow voices in American cinema / Hye Seung Chung -- The politics speak : performing race from Sweetback to Foxy Brown / Stephane Dunn -- Male sounds and speech affectations : voicing masculinity / Donna Peberdy.